Photograph of contour furrows showing moisture held in the furrows. OK-7015.

Photograph of contour strip cropping on non-cooperator's farm. Last year's crop was cotton and sudan. Wheat is now growing on cotton rows and it is planned to put cotton in what is now sudan. OK-7021.

Photograph of contour furrows showing moisture held in furows.

Photograph of contour strip cropping on non-cooperator's farm. Last year's crop was cotton and sudan. Wheat is now growing on cotton rows and it is planned to put cotton in what is now sudan.

Photograph of contour strip cropping on non-cooperator's farm. Last year's crop was cotton and sudan. Wheat is now growing on cotton rows and it is planned to put cotton in what is now sudan.

Photograph of terrace building with farm equipment. OK-7014.

Photograph of contour pasture ridges showing increased growth on ridges.

Photograph of an alfalfa field developed in the flood plain of Cloud Creek below detention reservoirs No. 1 and No. 2. This bottom land was formerly cut in two by a gully 4' to 6' deep. This ditch has been plowed in. The bottom formerly overflowed once or twice most years causing excessive crop losses and preventing the establishment of a stand of alfalfa. Wheat made 35 bu. per acre in 1949. A rain occurring in May 1949 would have destroyed the crop on 30 acres had it not been for the Cloud Creek flood control construction. Alfalfa was seeded in Sept. A heavy rain falling in Nov. did not damage the stand of alfalfa.

Photograph of a brush choked channel of branch below detention reservoir No. 2. To be cleared later and established to alfalfa.

Photograph of the confluence of 2 branches of Cloud Creek. Channel is now eliminated and lower portion seeded to alfalfa.

Photograph of delivering fish for farm ponds at SCS office by Buster Cothren of the Oklahoma State Fish & Game Commission Hatchery at Medicine Park. Receiving fish were Casper Gosselin, Sam Holden, J.L. Holman, Era Sasseen, Wilbur Cooper, G.C. Slatten, Jo

Photograph of delivering fish for farm ponds at SCS office by Buster Cothren of the Oklahoma State Fish & Game Commission Hatchery at Medicine Park. Receiving fish were Casper Gosselin, Sam Holden, J.L. Holman, Era Sasseen, Wilbur Cooper, G.C. Slatten, Jo

Photograph of delivering fish for farm ponds at SCS office by Buster Cothren of the Oklahoma State Fish & Game Commission Hatchery at Medicine Park. Receiving fish were Casper Gosselin, Sam Holden, J.L. Holman, Era Sasseen, Wilbur Cooper, G.C. Slatten, Joe Morkey, Henry C. Diskerson, Troy Maddox, and Cordell Fishing Club for Cloud Creek flood control Detention Reservoir No. 1. More that 10,000 bass fry were delivered.

Photograph of the high water mark and bank scouring shown after 2 to 4 inches of rains on watershed of North Cavalry. This is a 25 year old man-made channel designed to prevent flooding and ponding on bottom land. Nearby farmers say that this channel seldom overflows, but that it has lowered the water table in the soil enough to lower crop yields. The channel is approximately 20 feet deep at this point.

Photograph of overflow from Elk Creek and runoff from surrounding areas inundating good farm land 1 mile from creek. Looking south along highway after 4" rain.

Photograph of stocking Detention Reservoir No. 1 of the Cloud Creek Flood control project with 6000 bass fry, 3000 channel cat, Nov. 1949. Leo Brown & G. W. Solnvenk pouring fish into the pond. Fish were delivered by Buster Cotheran, State Fish and Game Commission. The lake will cover approximately 30 surface acres when full.

Photograph of Silt deposition washed from unprotected field above N. Fork Red River.

Photograph of waste land that has been transformed to a newly prepared field. Some of the brush removed from newly prepared field on left. Gully 4' to 6' deep has been filled. The field will be seeded to oats in spring of 1950 and alfalfa in the fall. This was formerly waste land due to overflow.

Photograph of D.O. Bermier, farm owner, and Willis J. Serrels, acting work unit conservationist, studying soils map after walking over a field, and making notes of practicies to be included in a farm plan. Applicant is a member of the Eden Conservation Group. Farm lies in Upper Rocky Creek sub-watershed of the Washita River. OK-8942.

Photograph of Cavalary Creek overflowing. This is inbetween the Frank Kliewer and Elmer Flaming farms, 7 miles SE of Cordell, Okla. Overflow enters North Cavalry Creek after running down the road less tha 1/2 mile from where it leaves South Cavalry Creek. (See the Okla-10-783 and Okla-10-782 series). Flood waters are washing out the road and endangering the bridge. This picture is looking south.

Photograph of multiflora roses planted in 1947 as shrub in ain a shelterbelt between farmstead and field to the north. OK-994-B.

Photograph of a follow-up of a roadside drop-inlet flood control structure adjoining the Sid Lundy farm. The structure was built where formerly a dangerous wooden bridge spanned a gully on a school bus and mail route. County Commissioners furnished the pipe and the Soil Conservation District put in a fill through the Soil Conservation Service Flood Control program. The permanent basin is full of water. OK-9600-D.

Photograph of a drop-inlet gully control structure built by the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Flood Control Program in the spring of 1948. Diversions bring the water into this gully plug and protect other gullies. Drainage area is 195 acres. OK-10, 213.

Photograph of flooding occuring in the city limits of Cordell downstream from the proposed site 24, Calvary watershed.