Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Named to head the Oklahoma Association of Soil and water Conservation Districts are from left to right, Judge Laverna Fishel, Colgate, president; Hugh Green, Carmen, first vice president; Walter M. Sears, Ramone, second vice president and Harrell Allen, Ada, National councilman."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Learning how the Farm Bureau does things from its president, Lewis Munn, Cherokee, left, are three farmers from Thailand in southeast Asia."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A friendly family argument on whose steer is best will be settled here at the state spring fat stock show between raymond Prewitt, left, and brother Wayne, both of the Burlington FFA."

Photograph of a stubble mulch grain drill (John Deere) drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8" blade. This is rear view of a grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble mulch prepared seedbed.

Photograph of a 4 acre strip of weeping lovegrass used as wind-strip and rotation hay and pasture on 7X AB Pratt fine sandy loam. Renhart harvests seed and pastures these strips in the winter with small grain and vetch. Seed harvested 6/20/59 yielded 800 lb. seed on the 4 acres. After 5 years the strips are plowed up and other strips are seeded to control wind erosion.

Photograph of a 4 acre strip of weeping lovegrass used as wind-strip and rotation hay and pasture on 7X AB Pratt fine sandy loam. Renhart harvests seed and pastures these strips in the winter with small grain and vetch. Seed harvested 6/20/59 yielded 800

Photograph of stubble mulch (John Deere) grain drill drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8" blade. This is rear view of a grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble mulch prepared seedbed.

Photograph of a Noble Blade stubble mulch tillage machine with blade raised out of ground. It is the preferred type of tillage mulch machine being used on Wheatland Experiment Station by Supt. Harold Meyers.

Photograph of stubble mulch (John Deere) grain drill drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8" blade. This is rear view of a grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble mulch prepared seedbed.

Photograph of a Brillion Seeder used to plant weeping lovegrass strip on 7x AB Pratt, Fine Sandy Loam after soil was prepared with a rod weeder and chisel type machine. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Wind Strip & Rotation Hay and Pasture. Pasture strip on 7x AB Pratt, Fine Sandy Loam showing Brillion Seeder which was used to plant the weeping lovegrass strip after soil was prepared with a rod weeder and chisel type machine."

Photograph of pasture strip on 7X AB Pratt, Fine Sandy Loam showing Brillion Seeder which was used to plant the weeping lovegrass strip after soil was prepared with a Rod Weeded and chisel type machine.

Photograph of Mr. Harold Myers, Wheatland Experiment Station superintendent, holding up wheat stubble and root system which has been released by the Noble Blade stubble mulch tillage machine.

Photograph of pasture strip on 7X AB Pratt, Fine Sandy Loam showing Brillion Seeder which was used to plant the weeping lovegrass strip after soil was prepared with a Rod Weeded and chisel type machine.

Photograph of a John Deere stubble mulch grain drill drilling wheat in stubble mulch tillage. Tillage performed by Noble 8 inch blade. This is front view of grain drill seeding wheat in a stubble prepared seedbed.

Photograph of Noble blade stubble mulch tillage machine being used on Wheatland Exp. Station. This is the first operation by the 8 ft. blade cutting approximately 5 inches under the surface. It raised the slice of dirt slightly, but leaves the stubble and other residue in place.

Photograph of 7X-AB Pratt Fine Sandy Loam soil. Reinhart using a rod weeder fastened to a chisel type instrument. Chisels loosens soil and rod rotates in reverse which lifts all vegetation up from 4 inch depth. On tighter or more loamy soils this machine is used after one-waying for the second operation.

Photograph of Cecil Reinhart kneeling in a four acre strip of weeping lovegrass used as wind-strip and rotation hay and pasture on 7x AB Pratt fine sandy loam soil. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Rotation Hay and Pasture. 4 acre strip of weeping lovegrass used as wind-strip and rotation hay and pasture on 7x AB Pratt fine sandy loam soil. Reinhart harvests seed and pastures these strips in the winter with small grain and vetch. Seed harvested 6/20/59 yielded 800 lb. seed on the 4 acres. After 5 years the strips are plowed up and other strips are seeded to control wind erosion."

Article discusses the establishment and curriculum of Stella Friends Academy, a high school founded near Cherokee, Oklahoma by several pioneer families. Mary Blue Coppock explores the impact it left on the community there and on the history of education in Oklahoma.