Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a cornfield planted with vetch. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Corn following 4 crops of vetch. Land prepared for alfalfa last fall – too dry – so corn planted this spring. Vetch was used for pasture. Cut for hay one year yielding 70 bales per acre. Says vetch good pasture and will graze on head per acre during favorable growing season of fall or spring. Johnson grass killed with one deep and one shallow planting in dry weather.”

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a field of second year vetch. Directly behind the UNIDENTIFED man is a field of corn following four years of vetch. The back of the photograph proclaims, “2nd year vetch. Grazed with 14 head of cows on 12 acres from last of March to first part of May. Immediately south in background following 4 years of vetch.“

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 harvesting of 35 acres of King Ranch bluestem grass on the A. E. Bryant farm /ranch. A combine with a spike-tooth cylinder was used. Two days were required to harvest the grass. Mr. Bryant estimates he harvested 1500 pounds of clean seed. Planting was made in the spring of 1947. A good seed crop was harvested in June, a light crop in July and a good yield will be harvested in October. From 2 harvests in 1948 a total of 2500 pounds of seed were harvested. Mr. Bryant needs the following adjustments on his combine for harvesting the crop: the cylinder set at a speed of 1080 rpm; the header set high [unclear] off the air; a ¼ to 3/8 inch clearance on the cylinder; and the reel set forward and down. This is a perennial grass that appears to have a wide adaptation as to soil & rainfall. Note that the grass is waist-high. Planted in 3 feet rows (105 pounds on 35 acres). It has been kept in rows as row plantings tend to yield more than drilled plantings. Bryant has obtained good results by [unclear] dressing this grass with 100 pounds of ammonium sulphate …

Photograph of a pasture gully in a natural draw. Runoff water has been eliminated from channel by two pond dams, one above and one below this area. Mr Akins is a District Supervisor. Harold Akins property in foreground. Lawrence Herger property across the fence.

Photograph of Mr. J. B. Eberheart, who is running a combine rye and vetch seed material through a small portable seed cleaner. Following this operation the seed will be run through a spiral separator to separate the rye from the vetch and eliminate most of the unwanted unsound, cracked seeds. TX-42, 825.

Photograph of G. C. Gardner and Ralph Shaver standing in Shaver's four-acre field of sweetclover that yielded 300 pounds of seed. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. G. C. Gardner, 2. Ralph Shaver. The back of the photograph proclaims, "4 Acre Field of Sweet Clover that yielded 300 lbs. of seed. G. C. Gardner, left and Ralph Shaver in the picture. Shaver says he has planted corn after sweet clover and experienced yield of 15 bushels more per acre than where clover was not grown. On another 7 acre sweet clover field where District Supervisor Shaver pastured 70 head of hogs for 3 months after shaver had pastured 2 milk cows from April 15 to October 15 October."

Photograph of Windrowing hubam clover with a combine. Clover was planted on the contour in a terraced field. After it has cured 4 to 5 days in the windrow it will be thrashed by a combine with a pick-up attachment. TX-42, 136.

Photograph of Mr. Billie Prewitt, [unclear] Hereford breeder, and with a Soil Conservation Service technician, left, look over an area of alkali-sacaton grass range on Prewitt’s ranch. The range is flood irrigated and has not been grazed this year. TX-42, 652.

Photograph of a UNIDENIFIED man kneeling in a pasture consisting of four rows of corn and eight rows of peanuts planted in straight wind strips. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Four rows of corn, eight rows of peanuts in straight wind strips. Land Use Capability Class II. Corn stalks have been out with stalk cutter, leaving litter on top of ground. Peanuts harvested and followed with cover crop of rye. Twelve months ago wind erosion was active in this field. No blowing has occurred since establishment of cover –rotation- strip crop program. May Fine Sandy Loam. "A" slope."

Photograph of a pasture gully in a natural draw. Runoff water has been eliminated from the channel by a two pond dams, one above and one below this area. Mr. Harold Atkins is a District Supervisor. OK-8850.

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man inspecting a field of Abruzzi rye and hairy vetch cultivated by J. Doss Miller in Comanche county, Texas. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Abruzzi rye and hairy vetch on 30 acre old, cultivated field. Crop planted about Nov. 15, 1945, fertilized with 100# superphosphate (0-20-0) per acre. This field is badly sheet eroded (deep blow sand) and contains some bad washes. Last year it yielded about 20 bushels of peanuts per acre, while average yields on same type of soil in the county ran about 35 to 40 bushels. Crop will be harvested for seed. An additional 70 acres were "onewayed" by Mr. Miller for soil improvement to be followed with peanuts. Clipping test yielded 1.6 tons of rye and 4.4 tons of vetch per acre."

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

Photograph of a tractor-drawn harrow in terrace. Land is being prepared for wheat. These terraces were constructed in September, 1943. They withstood a 6 inch rain that fell in 12 hours in April 1944. OK-8855.

Photograph of supplemental pasture and cover crop of rye on the Blackwell brothers’ farm. Crop was fertilized with 150 pounds per acre of 4-12-4 fertilizer. The field is completely terraced and was covered in Sudan grass last year. When the Blackwell brothers bought this farm, this field was too severely depleted to grow a crop. TX-41, 394

Photograph of Sam Prewitt, polled hereford breeder, and Soil Conservation Service (SCS) technician [name unclear], left, look over an area of alkali-sacaton range on Mr. Prewit's ranch. The range is flood irrigated and has not been irrigated this year (1946). TX-42-632.

Photograph of part of a 16 acre permanent woodland marked for selective cutting to improve stand. Stand is heavily marked to salvage insect-damaged timber. Trees marked with an "X" will be removed. 12,000 board feet [bd. ft.], practically all of which is pine, will be harvested. The entire 16 acres has been completely protected from fire for 6 years. OK-8798.

Photograph of two UNIDENTIFIED men standing in the orchard of W. H. Smith and looking at the fields vetch and Abruzzi rye which provides it with seed production and soil improvement. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Vetch in bloom and Abruzzi rye in orchard for seed and soil improvement. This is the second year that vetch has been used in the 400 acre orchard. Last year Smith seeded 85 acres and harvested seed on 45 acres, using the seed in the orchard this year. He brought additional land last year & put vetch on a badly eroded, clay hill. It was turned under & followed with peanuts which made 60 bu. per acre. Smith said "Peanuts were fertilized with about 70 to 100# per acre of 4-12-4, but I don't figure we would have made any peanuts there at all without the humus the vetch added to the soil." He will harvest about 120 acres for seed this year, and turn under about 280 acres. This year all the vetch was fertilized with 150# per acre of phosphate. One clipping test showed that the vetch was returning 10 tons per acre of green matter to the soil. In late …

Photograph of mounted cotton roots showing the effect of poor drainage, plow sole pan, hard pans, clay pans have a cotton root development. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Mounted cotton roots showing the effect of poor drainage, plow sole pan, hard pans, clay pans have a cotton root development."

Photograph of a field of varying topography on the red shale of the Rolling Red Plains. The back of the photograph proclaims, "The red shale hills site of the Rolling Red Plains is a complex of very shallow soils on the hilltops and steep slopes, shallow soils on the gentler slopes, and deep colluvial soils in the narrow draws. The climax vegetation of the shallow and very shallow soils is mixed prairie."

Photograph of a crew using a scalper to clean up bluestem seed after it has come in from the combine. Claude Kilpatrick harvested about 50,000 pounds of little and big bluestem, Indiangrass and switchgrass. In the picture, left to right are Frank Zoski, Cecil Zoski and James Whitson. The scalper is located in Kilpatrick's barn. OK-9727.

Photograph of the unloading of bluestem seed in the mile-long Douglas Aircraft plant in Tulsa. From eft to right: Clarence Day and D.B. Clagg, both in the truck, and W.L. Elliot on the ground. The seed is from Coweta, near Broken Arrow. OK-9754.

Photograph of Kilpatrick and Clarence Bunch, Washita River Flood Control agronomist from Geary, Oklahoma, who was in charge of the Soil Conservation Service seed harvest of northeastern Oklahoma native grass seed, stand by sacked bluestem seed which Kilpatrick has harvested for sale. More of the sacked seed canbe seen under the barn. OK-9728.

Photograph of a crew using a scalper to clean up bluestem seed after it has come in from the combine. Claude Kilpatrick harvested about 50,000 pounds of little and big bluestem, Indiangrass and switchgrass. In the picture, left to right are Frank Zoski, Cecil Zoski and James Whitson. The scalper is located in Kilpatrick's barn. OK-9727.