Photograph of sprigging Bermuda grass on medium textured upland. Good seedbed has been prepared.

Photograph of renovating Bermuda grass with field cultivator. Cultivator is going about 4 inches deep. Will be fertilized.

Photograph of digging Bermuda grass roots to be sprigged. Spikes were pulled over land twice and side delivery rake is used to complete job.

Photograph of Hairy Vetch being plowed under prior to planting a crop of cotton. Planted for green manure crop.

Photograph of reseeding rangeland under Great Plains Program, GP Contract No. 13. Turman Fletcher, owner, on tractor. Hardland Range Site.

Photograph of three grass drill hook-up drills 12-14 acres per hour with 3 drills. Seeding width, 24 ft. Rear view of 3-drill hook-up. Jesse Jones, farm owner on tractor.

Photograph of Gyp ledge rock is near level around the horizon. Immediately south of Mangum, near Salt Fork of Red River. Looking southeast into canyon.

Photograph of Mill Creek cattle feed pens built on sloping land with irrigated land in background. Irrigation project was possible because of the protection afforded by 4 floodwater retarding structures on upper end of Mill Creek. Ensilage, alfalfa, barley, and grain sorghum are grown for feed. Sugar drip cans made 50 tons of ensilage per acre with 2 cuttings. The crop was heavily fertilized and irrigated from deep wells. Feed pens have a capacity of 1500 to 2000 head.

Photograph of an irrigation project made possible because of protection afforded by 4 floodwater retarding structures on upper end of Mill Creek. Ensilage, alfalfa, barley, and grain sorghum are grown for feed. Sugar drip cans made 50 tons of ensilage per acre with 2 cuttings. The crop was heavily fertilized and irrigated from deep wells. Feed pens have a capacity of 1500 to 2000 head.

Photograph of cattle feed pens with cattle being fed ensilage produced on irrigated land protected from overflow by 4 floodwater retarding structures on upper Mill Creek. Two cuttings of ensilage made 50 tons per acre in 1960. Feed pens have capacity of 1500 to 2000 head. Other feeds produced include alfalfa hay, barley, and grain sorghums. Irrigation is from deep wells.

Photograph of the Washita River Kickapoo Sandy subwatershed. View of bottomland to be protected by upstream flood prevention project. Irrigated land with tail out ditch is just above the road and railroad.

Photograph of a second year strawberry crop. Soil is Bodine cherty siltloam, 1 to 8 percent slopes, an extensive Adair county soil sidely used for strawberries.

Photograph of waterway construction near Perry. Construction started in the spring of 1956.

Photograph of of improved pasture via Ladino clover and oats in Bermuda grass. OK-1310-12.

Photograph of pasture plantings. Sprigging Bermuda grass on medium textured upland. Good seedbed has been prepared. OK-1305-4.

Photograph of pasture planting. Unloading Bermuda sprigs from a truck to a trailer on a sprigger. OK-1305-2.

Photograph of Topper Jackson loading Midland Bermuda roots for sprigging with district-owned automatic sprigger. OK-1327-7.

Photograph of GP Contract No. 13. Reseeding rangeland under the Great Plains Conservation Program. Truman Fletcher, farm owner, rides the tractor. Hardland Range Site. OK-1312-10.

Photograph of Ladino clover and oats in Bermuda pasture.

Photograph of a Caucasian bluestem pasture planted in spring of 1960. Fire burned off approx. 20 acres. Picture shows excellent recovery of grass.

Photograph of watershed - Washita. Construction on site 12. M. C. Contractors, Inc. DW 21 scraper carrying 21 yard of dirt for dam.

Photograph of watershed - Washita. Construction on site 12. M. C. Contractors, Inc. Push Cat - loading scraper.

Photograph of Sugar Creek. Setting fence on critical gully area 202. Sewell Bros. Contractor.

Photograph of gully to be shaped. K. E. Kelly in gully. Depth 17' - 45' top. Soil unit 6w-BD-4