Photograph of a district owned native grass drill. The drill is a 8' combination seeder equipped for seeding rough grass seeds in the large box and hard grass seeds in the small box on the back of the drill.

Photograph of planting maize on land that has been lev3eled and is to be irrigated.

Photograph of home made erosion control made of old tires spaced at 20 foot intervals to try to check wind erosion on the county road. These tires are used to slow wind erosion until vegetation can get started in the borrow ditch.

Photograph of the root system of giant reed grass exposed by wind action. Giant reed grass will eventually stabilize this active blowing if deferred from grazing.

Photograph of Midland bermuda grass pasture planted in the spring of 1954, pastured by 3 cows and 4 calves. Pasxture is 2 acres and is irrigated on 7x soil. This pasture could stand more grazing.

Photograph of wind erosion control. Homemade wind erosion coontrol made of old tires spaced at 20 feet intervals to try to check wind erosoion on the county road. These tires are used to slow wind erosion until vegitation can get started in the borrow ditch.

Photograph of planting maize on land that has been leveled and is to be irrigated.

Photograph of Tick Clover along margin of blackjack timber growing in borrow ditch. This Tick clover is a wild legume and is doing well along the roadside.

Photograph of Stuve's lespedeza along margin of Blackjack timber in highway borrow ditch.

Photograph of sand dunes that wee at one time active becoming stabilized by giant reed bluestem grass.

Photograph of cattle grazing on a properly managed range. February calves creep-fed oats weighing 600 lbs. by September.

Photograph of cattle grazing on a properly managed range. February calves creep-fed oats weighing 600 lbs. by September.

Photograph of a Midland Bermuda Grass pasture planted in the spring of 1954 pastured by 3 cows and 4 calves. Pasture is 2 acres and is irrigated on 7x soil. This pasture could stand more grazing.

Photograph of sorghum sown in a stubble mulch after one operation with a Noble plow.

Photograph of active sand dunes becoming stabilized with the use of blow-out grass and sand bluestem grass. The sand in these dunes was blown up from the North Canadian river bottom.

Photograph of a crawler-pulling brush chopper. This picture shows sunflower and cockle burr on the bottom pasture land being controlled by a brush chopper. The chopper measure 32 feet wide. OK-101-5.

Photograph of bindweed in bloom. OK-342-1.

Photograph of Carey silt loam profile. Note the compound columnar structure and the accumulation of caliche. The A1 horizon is about 12 inches thick, the B2 and B3 are about 2 ½ feet thick and the C ca [ca = pedogenic carbonates = carbonic acids that can that modify soil constituents] horizon extend below this. Entire picture covers 6½ feet of depth, typical of much of Carey soils in Harper County, transported by alluvial-colluvial forces from nearby hills and a weak B horizon has formed in places. Some soils are moderately permeable. OK-304-4.

Photograph of a district-owned native grass seed drill. The drill is an 8-foot combonation seeder equiped for seeding rough grass seeds in the large box and hard grass seeds in the small box on the back of the drill. OK-133-4.

Photograph of irrigating small grains by using gated pipe and corrugated rows.

Photograph of an 8" pipe leading water from the riser connected to 12" concrete pipe below.

Photograph of the installation of a 12" underground concrete pipe to furnish water to leveled field to be irrigated by flooding.

Photograph of SCS Tech. Clarence E. Stith checks growth of biennial yellow sweet clover. Stith planted the clover in the spring of 1952 in this 20 acre wheat field solely to improve the soil, the deep roots opening up the soil for the free circulation of air and water. He also uses hairy vetch turned in to add organic matter. To follow clover with wheat for 4 or 5 years.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Pastor Robert Wilson Jr., shows Superintendent B.F. Rowley the new Latin book which has been introduced into the curriculum at Buffalo high school."