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 R. T. Douglas and his field. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Pig weeds grow on fertile land where I planted corn twice this year,” says R. T. Douglas. “My fist planting washed out and the second planting had just started growing when this field was flooded a second time, I’ve got about 75 acres on which there will be a total crop loss this year. If my new drainage system had been completed in time I expect I’d have made 40 bushels of corner per acre here from the first planting.”