Photograph of interplanting of Pine trees, 1942. Compare with Okla-10-564-B to contrast growth rate. The hardwood has been girdled since the last picture was taken. More rapid growth should be expected.

Photograph of grasses. Weeping Love Grass (Eragrostis cruvula) in a cultivation study. Note the rows to the right of the white stick and the broadcast to the left of this. The area was seeded in April, 1939, on Chickasha fine sandy loam soil. # 340.

Photograph of little bluestem at the Red Plains Experiment Station. The bluestem was established in the spring of 1940 by 1500 pounds per acre seed-hay mulch. An effort has been made to thresh the seed from material by a small Allis-Chalmers combine. The hay contained considerable moisture, thus the threshed material contained considerable seed. Application was made broadcast on badly eroded sandy loam soil which had previously been cropped to cotton and grain sorghum. After spreading, the material was immediately rolled with a cultipacker. OK-8713.

Photograph of road bed sloughing off into gully caused by excessive run-off from adjoining cultivated fields. Conservation farming methods would have prevented this. OK-8450.

Photograph of two acre Bermuda grass pasture strip developed from a badly gullied draw. The draw was sloped and sodded in 1938 and now provides grazing at the rate of 1 unit per acre and serves as an outlet channel for 70 acres of terraced and cultivated land. Mr. Fred Bunch states that this pasture strip furnishes better grazing than any of his 28 acres of native pasture on this 160 acre farm. He also states that his soil conservation practices have increased by $1,000 the value of this farm. Terraces were built with the assistance of the old Sentinel Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] Camp. OK-8467.

Photograph of pure stand blue grama in outlet channel. Broadcast into sudan stubble in the spring of 1939. OK-8465.

Photograph of a view looking up a concrete spillway and across the spillway crest showing the rocky point in the background--which affects the entrance condition. OK-8439.

Photograph of a channel-type terrace construction using 4 foot Fresno Scraper with a 3-mule team. The dirt from the third plowing of the channel has been moved into the ridge. Note in the completed terrace the broad flat channel and easy slopes on the ridge. Channel cross sectional area is 16.5 square feet and its effective height is 1.6 ft. OK-8344-N.

Photograph of a channel-type terrace construction using 4 foot Fresno Scraper with a 3-mule team. The dirt from the third plowing of the channel has been moved into the ridge. Note in the completed terrace the broad flat channel and easy slopes on the ridge. Channel cross sectional area is 16.5 square feet and its effective height is 1.6 ft. OK-8344-D.

Photograph of a properly managed, average size farm pond. It will cheaply produce sufficient fish to furnish farm families with all of the essential protein, minerals and vitamins needed for a balanced diet. This pond produces enough fish for the owner and for some of his neighbors. R.G. Summers, age 16, who lives nearby is shown with a morning’s catch of bass and blue gill. AR-D1-22.

Photograph of 19 acre seeding of weeping love grass on an old cultivated field for pasture. Seeded in 1941 in rows andcultivated. Seeds were harvested this year [1942]. OK-8456.

Photograph of sheep grazing on temporary pastures of wheat. Mr. R.R. Wooten has about 290 acres of Buffalo pasture but utilizes temporary pasture each year to prevent overgrazing of his permanent pastures. TX-40-912.

Photograph of A. W. Steglich watching his cattle graze in a Bermuda pasture.

Photograph of a wild grouse.

Photograph of cultivated Indian grass seed increase field.

Photograph of 2 year old growth of a native grass mixture seeded in denuded sand sagebrush range land at Elkhart, Kansas. The prominent grass in this view is sand lovegrass.

Photograph of 2 year old growth of a native grass mixture seeded in denuded sand sagebrush range land at Elkhart, Kansas. The prominent grass in this view is sand lovegrass.

Photograph of a grass drill, rear view with press wheel gang removed. OK-8350.

Photograph of a grass drill, rear view with press wheel gang removed, showing row markers in carrying position. OK-8351.

Photograph of the harvesting of buffalo grass seed with a small power-driven sickle-type mover with a pan attachment. OK-8383.

Photograph of rows 9 to 16 in sand bluestem breeding nursery. OK-8375.

Photograph of two strains of Blue Grama grasses in breeding nursery. On the left, from Flagstaff, Arizona and the right, from Lovington, New Mexico. OK-8370.

Photograph of sideoats grama grass selection with compressed spikelets. OK-8373.

Photograph of strains of Blue Grama grass in a breeding nursery in Mexico Springs, New Mexico. OK-8369.