Photograph of representative erosion damage in this section from a heavy rain, approximate a 1 inch accumulation on May 9, 1947. Silting and washing in this 35 acre cornfield have destroyed conservatively 12 to 18 percent of the corn and cotton crop. Corn and cotton was cultivated up and down rows and dozens of small washes 3 to 25 feet wide have covered the young plants completely with silt. Erosion control methods, properly established, would have reduced the damage to less than 1%. Class II land in foreground; Class III in the background. Soil is a Houston blank clay; slope 2% to 4%; erosion 11 and 111. TX-43, 659.

Photograph of the modern farm home of L.A. Rounds. OK-9485.

Photograph of M.H. Dougan (left) and Sam Dougan (right) showing their many visitors some of the clovers and lespedezas they have grown on their pastures. M.H. holds a bundle of giant hop clover while his brother has a small hop clover. On the table at the left is black sample clover, at right is Korean lepedeza. All the samples were out in 1946. OK-9322.

Photograph of a close-up detail of individual plants in the excellent composition on normal upland site. The predominantly tall plants, starting at the left, are tall dropseed, a single stalk of sideoats grama, a large clump of little bluestem, and, the plume-like one toward the right, Indian grass. See TX-43, 965A for the percentage composition of the grasses on this site. TX-43, 965B.

Photograph of close up of grasses [text too faded for legibility]. TX-43, 968.

Photograph of close-up detail of individual plants in the good composition on normal upland site. The predominant grasses, starting at left, are prairie coneflower; redseed plantains; sideoats grama; the low-growing buffalo grass; broomweed; in the center, tall dropseed; the predominant thistle; silver bluestem; Indian grass and the last one, to the right, little bluestem. TX-43, 966B.

Photograph of grasses and other plants [text too faded for legibility]. TX-43, 966B.

Photograph of close-up detail of individual plants in the good composition on normal upland site. The predominant grasses, starting at left, are prairie coneflower; redseed plantains; sideoats grama; the low-growing buffalo grass; broomweed; in the center, tall dropseed; the predominant thistle; silver bluestem; Indian grass and the last one, to the right, little bluestem. TX-43, 966B.

Photograph of Guy Lockhart driving the tractor while Emmett Stewart, Soil Conservation service technician, is on the combine during a harvest of a King Ranch strain of Yellow Bluestem. The stand is 2 years old. In 1946 it yielded 300 pounds of seed on 4 acres. It was combined twice that year. The yield, possibly reduced by drought, was about the same this year. TX-43, 963.

Photograph of the harvesting of two-year old stand of King ranch strian of Yellow Bluestem. This stand yielded 300 pounds of seed from four areas in 1946. TX-43-964.