Photograph of President Eisenhower.s stop at Woodward Oklahoma.

Photograph of a district employee turning grass seed as part of the curing process. This area is located beneath the grandstand at the City Park and one of the many such areas leased by the District for this purpose.

Photograph of a district employee cleaning switchgrass seed in District warehouse. Also shown is part of the many thousands of pounds of switchgrass already cleaned and stacked ready for distribution.

Photograph of Ed Rowley, SCS business manager, and assistant sacking and weighing grass seed in the District warehouse.

Photograph of Ed Rowley, SCS business manager, and helpers cleaning switchgrass seed seed in the District warehouse.

Photograph of the features of soil coring tubes (in upper portion of photo). 1. Arrangement of the open side, milled with cutting tool. 2. Cross pin for driving and lifting tube (hardened steel). 3. Threaded (female) end of tube into which points might be changed (seamless steel tubing). 4. The tip made to specifications threaded (male) and hardened with variable size opening of tip to fit differnt soils.

Photograph of a soil coring machine viewed from operators seat showing: Tube cleaner with soil coring tube lowered in which position heavy clays can be forced out by use o power. Motor mounting mechanism. Solenoids and wiring arrangement. Limit switch. Conduit to upper limit switch. Hole in floor board (3.5x4.5") for disposal of soil from soil coring tube.

Photograph of the inside cab view of soil coring machine from drivers seat. Tube cleaner in foreground is near the operator where 99% of fastened cores in tip can be jared loose by hand simply by setting tube in the cleaner and pushing downward on soil coring tube. Lower limit switch can be used with power by swinging around drive head with soil coring tube being lowered. Cover for drive mechanism. Hole in floor board to dispose of soil from the coring tube (hinged to jeep cab) and held open by 1/4 inch stove bolt which hinges to the right or left in double nut welded to jeep cab. Heater located so that heat is thrown back into cab. The base of the soil coring machine shown here is 1/4 inch slab steel and is too light for this application, the steel springs downward when pulling soils from heavy clays.

Photograph of the front view of the coring machine, upper section, with cover to the right. 1. Idler sprocket pine bearing. 2. Upper limit switch. 3. Coring head drive and mounting arrangement on push pull roller chain. 4. Tension adjustment, slots and adjusting screws to tighten chain. 5. Breaker block to stop coasting movement of mechanism after limit switch cuts off power. 6. Cover with bolt hole which fastenes to angle iron support and fastened in place by stud in threaded hole in angle iron.

Photograph of a close-up of a furrow-type native grass seed drill developed on the Phil ferguson Ranch. OK-674-6/

Photograph of farming equipment, showing a furrow-type native grass seed drill developed on Phil Ferguson's ranch for overseeding depleted rangelands. OK-674-6.

Photograph of farming equipment, showing a furrow-type native grass seed drill developed on Phil Ferguson's ranch for overseeding depleted rangelands. OK-674-7.

Photograph of soil scientist Earl Nanace using soil survey equipment which has been used to map Woodward County. OK-565-2.

Photograph of rough, broken land, Breaks Range silt showing topography and vegetation. OK-804-11.

Photograph of an isolated remain of the geological formation that the Cimarron River and tributaries are eroding away. The rough, broken land, Quinlan and Vernon material [i.e., soil types], occurs on very steep slopes, while the clay outcrops, Vernon material, occurs in the more level foreground. First soil is the Breaks and the second the Shallow Range Sites. OK-810.5.

Photograph of bundleflower (Illinois Desmanthus), a native legume being tested at the Woodward Experiment Station, shows promise to be included in native grass mixtures and Weeping Lovegrass. The plant is palatable in younger stages, but more research is needed before widepread use is recommended. OK-163-2.

Photograph of cows in a field; pasture improvement. Cattle grazing in areas that have been harvested for seed. These pastures were deferred during summer, harvested for grass seed, and will now be utilized for wintering purposes. OK-575-11.

Photograph of a fence line contrast, Dwight Ferguson farm. A fence-line contrast showing on the left the area utilized for summer grazing. On the right, the area deferred for winter grazing. The area on the right has been harvested for grass seed. OK-575-10.

Photograph of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) selections being grown in native grass nursery at the Woodward Experiment Station. OK-163-10.

Photograph of sand bluestem (Andropogon hallii) selections being grown in native grass nursery at the Woodward Experiment Station. OK-163-8.

Photograph of a mixed grass planting on Woodward Soil made in 1950. King Ranch bluestem at left center; switch grass right center.

Photograph of a cooperative effort in the county to combine roads with proper water distribution for livestock in the construction of dams in Woodward County SCD. Face of dam indicates the lack of correct upstream slope and drawdown pipe. Quinlan-Woodward loam, 5 to 12% slope for the Shallow Range Site.

Photograph of native grass planting in excellent condition. Mixture consists of Little and Sand Bluestem, Side oats, Switch and Sandlove grass.

Photograph of part of a 90 cow dairy herd grazing on alfalfa. Farm Superintendent Johnnie Nemecek in photo.