Photograph of Green bean harvest on Bodine stony silt loam (7Xc-BE). This is an excessively well drained soil of the Ozark Highlands, formerly coverred with hardwood timber and used extensively for strawberry production. Slopes are very strong to steep. Field had previously been cleared of timber and had been producing strawberies for 3 years.

Photograph of a green bean harvest on Peck silt loam (7w.B). Three to four tons per acre is average production with occasional yeilds under favorable conditions of 6 to 7 tons per acre. Returns from beans to farmers in Adair County about $600 thousand in 1959.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph of a soil profile of Huntington silt loam. This is a deep, medium textured, first bottom soil which occasionally is overflown and is important agriculturally in Adair County. OK-1148-10.