Photograph of Prickley Pear Cactus growth after sample has been mounted.

Photograph of County highway erosion control project, 2 miles south, 1 west of Stafford. Road and gullies are to be resectioned, a drop inlet and two culverts to be installed and grasses planted. To be followed with later pictures.

Photograph of County highway erosion control project, 2 miles south, 1 west of Stafford. Road and gullies are to be resectioned, a drop inlet and two culverts to be installed and grasses planted. To be followed with later pictures.

Photograph of newly constructed contour furrows built with a Texas terracer. White lines show cross section of area which will retain water. To be followed with later pictures. Part of the "Elk City Project."

Photograph of two UNIDENTIFIED men inspecting the newly constructed contour furrows on this field four miles east of Clinton. A house and barn are in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Newly constructed contour furrows built with a Texas terracer. White lines show cross section of area which will retain water. To be followed with later pictures."

Photograph of clumps or pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass.

Photograph of clumps or pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass.

Photograph of clumps or pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station. The land has been out of cultivation for 25 years [as when the photo was taken]. No conservation methods have been practiced. This land has been grazed very lightly. OK-6912.

Photograph of clumps or pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. Abandoned land which has been out of cultivation for forty years. It was severly eroded and even after forty years only annual grasses and weeds are able to survive. OK-6916.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. East farm gully control studies. 4 1/2 miles south of Guthrie, OK. Clumps or pedestals of soil held from ending by bluestream grass. OK-6913.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. Blackjack and chinery oak area which was cleared at the same time as that in OK-6909, but was not mowed to keep the scrub [around the?]oak trees from coming back. Compare with OK-6909 and OK-6911. OK-6910.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. East farm gully control studies. 4 1/2 miles south of Guthrie, OK. Clumps or pedestals of soil held from ending by bluestream grass. OK-6914.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station, Guthrie, OK. East farm gully control studies. 4 1/2 miles south of Guthrie, OK. Land which has been out of cultivation for 25 years. No conservation methods have been practiced. This has been grassed very lightly. OK-6912.

Photograph of the harvesting of Korean Lespedeza seed as seen in the combine. AR-30, 246.

Photograph of clumps or pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass.

Photograph of clumps of pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station. An east farm gully control studies 4 ½ miles south of Guthrie, Oklahoma. Clumps of pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass. OK-6915.

Photograph of the Red Plains Experiment Station. An east farm gully control studies 4 ½ miles south of Guthrie, Oklahoma. Clumps of pedestals of soil held from eroding by bluestem grass. OK-6913.

Photograph of Dr. C. P. Cox in a field.

Photograph of Clarence E. Bunch, Soil Conservation Service technician (left) and Harry Newer (right), Soil Conservation Supervisor examine some of the cured weeping lovegrass hay that is being baled from windrows on a 2 ½ acre field planted 14 ½ months ago. On June 15 it yielded 350 pounds of reclaimed seed valued at $3.50 to $4.00 per acre. Forty-five days after the grass was cut with a binder for seed it yielded 10 [number unclear], sixty-five pound bales of hay. Total value of yield from planter to date is about $1200 or $600 per acre.** He [Mr. Newer?] planted lovegrass March 27, 1944 after his wife asked him to “sow that field [with] something that will keep the dust out of the house.” He plans to plant an additional 8 or 10 acres of lovegrass next year. OK-9042.

Photograph of a former gullied area in a natural drain running through a cultivated field. The gully has been plowed in, banks leveled and with the field terraced. Note the terrace fills (in the background) where terraces cross the drain. The old gully was approximately 4 feet deep and could not be crossed with tillage implements. The field will be contour cultivated and a conservation crop rotation will be followed. Clarence E. Bunch, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician, in the photo. Camera station # 7. In cultivated field at the south bank of the gully, looking north, 20 feet north of the idle land area. OK-9047-9[?].

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