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 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. W. Steglich watching his cattle graze in a Bermuda pasture.

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 showing range management as the result of mowing sand sage plants. Very few weeds remain and a good stand of desireable range grasses is present one year after the mowing. OK-8507-B.

Photograph of blue grama grass, in the U. S. Field Station nursery, from Mexican Springs, NM.

Photograph of two strains of blue grama grass in the U. S. Field Station nursery. The row on the left is from Flagstaff, AZ and the row on the right is from Lovington, NM.

Photograph of blue grama grass, in the U. S. Field Station nursery, from Mexican Springs, NM.

Photograph of side-oats grama grass in the U. S. Field Station nursery.

Photograph of different strains of side-oats grama growing in breeding nursery.

Photograph of side-oats grama.

Photograph of sideoats grama located on the U. S. Field Station in Woodward. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Side-oats [sic] grama selection with compressed spikelets [sic]."

Photograph of Weeping Love Grass in a two acre field set out by A. H. Legako on May 2, 1942. Seedling plants were obtained from the Soil Conservation Service Land Utilization Project at Muskogee, OK. The seed crop was combined on 1942-07-08. and 26 pounds of recleaned seed were obtained on 1942-10-10. A hay crop might have been cut but Mr. Legako preferred to leave the grass blades on the ground for winter protection of the rocks. OK-8426.

Photograph of W. A. Seney standing in front of a recently harvested peanut field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Mr. Seney standing in field from which peanuts have just been pulled and stacked. A winter cover crop of rye grass has been harrowed in by Mr. Seney, which will be pastured until spring and then plowed under as a green manure crop. Field is contour tilled and terraced. Mr. Seney said he expected the peanuts to average 50 bushels per acre—the best peanut crop he has made."

Photograph of the W.R. and Joseph B. Cutrer Ranch showing improved pasture on an old cultivated field. In the spring of 1943 increased milk production from 30 dairy cattle on pasture was worth more than $17 per acre. They expected to harvest at least 100 pounds of clover seed per acre. Daily milk production from 30 cows increased from 275 pounds per day to 650 pounds per day when cows were placed on 24 acres of clover pasture in the spring of 1942. Treatment: 2 tons lime per acre, 700 pounds basic slag per acre and seeding of 10 pounds of a mixture of equal parts of hop, white, Dutch and Persian clover per acre, plus 10 pounds of Dallis grass per acre. Soil type, Kalmia, very fine sandy loam, above “B.” LA-D7-1.

Photograph of fertilized cotton.

Photograph of a cow.

Photograph of Kermit Whitehead, son of land owner W. R. Whitehead, examining corn.