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- County Road Before Improvements
- Photograph of conditons of county road prior to the construction of a road fill to be paid for jointly by the farmer, Count Commissioner, and the ASC in cooperation with Grady County SCD. See later photo for the site after construction. This road was used for school bus route, mail route, and Grade-A milk route. See photo OK-135-10 for condition of bridge at this crossing.
- Dam Site During Construction
- Photograph of gully has been bulldozed in, shaped, sloped, and an erosion control da, with a 24-inch corrugated pipe installed. The dam required 10,000 cubic yards of fill and the pipe was placed at the elevation of the floor of the finished grade of the valley. The dam is deigned to store 5 1/2 inches of runoff for the 136 acres drainage area. Auxilary spillway is not expected to be used except during a 100-year frequency rain. Note farmer seeding and fertilizing the are to winter oats and vetch. Entire area will be sodded to Midland Bermuda in the spring of 1956.
- Floating the Illinois River
- Photograph of boating equipment tour group preparing to launch canoes for float trip on the scenic Illinois River.
- Hereford Cattle Grazing
- Photograph of Hereford cattle grazing on weeping lovegrass .
- Plowing Under a Green Manure Crop
- Photograph of Armin Groeneman, district cooperator, and neighbor, plowing under a green manure crop of four to six ton per acre of sweet clover. Land was limed six or seven years ago with 2. 5 tons per acre and 500 pounds of Raw Rock Phosphate per acre. Sweet clover in crop rotation is a common practice on the Groeneman farm. He says it opens the soil and allows better moisture penetration and improved crop yields.
- Native Grass Mixture
- Photograph of a native grass mixture and blue grama side by side. Planted in spring of 1959.
- Plowing Under a Green Manure Crop
- Photograph of Armin Groeneman, district cooperator, and neighbor, plowing under a green manure crop of four to six ton per acre of sweet clover. Land was limed six or seven years ago with 2. 5 tons per acre and 500 pounds of Raw Rock Phosphate per acre. Sweet clover in crop rotation is a common practice on the Groeneman farm. He says it opens the soil and allows better moisture penetration and improved crop yields.
- Quality of Broom Corn
- Photograph of Mr. John Check and Mr. Bob Mapple (SCS tech) discussing quality of broom corn.
- Seed Harvest
- Photograph of a district employee cleaning switchgrass seed in District warehouse. Also shown is part of the many thousands of pounds of switchgrass already cleaned and stacked ready for distribution.
- Runoff Water Damage
- Photograph of runoff water from unprotected cropland fields deposited silt and topsoil over part of the road. Excess water washed part of black top road material down the natural drain.
- Stubble Holding Snow
- Photograph of stubble holds snow on the field
- Watershed Erosion
- Photograph of county road with severe erosion feeding sediment into canyon. This road ws open to traffic in 1967. Treatment includes diversion of water and use of pipe drop structure. Should County Commissioners agree to close road it will be planted in black locust trees.
- Tillage
- Photograph of Mr. Daugherty turning under a good crop of vetch.
- Wooden Bridge
- Photograph of 55 foot span of wooden bridge the County Commissioner had been attempting to maintain and replace for school bus route, mail route, and Grade-A milk route. Bridge ws dangerous for heavy loads and expensive to maintain. A combination road fill and stock water pond was planned at this site; see OK-136-9 for road approach and see later picture for completed structure.
- Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
- Photograph of tree management. Still holding to the same tree he had to kneel to reach in the “A” shot, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician A. E. Howard now stands so he will show in the “D” picture. The hardwood in the center fell since the “C” photo was taken. OK-10-457-D.
- Trail Riders
- Photograph of gathering of trail riders listening to final instructions.
- Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
- Photograph of George McKinley [this name written on the back of the photo] among noted grass and tree growth. Back of photo says "Kuron 1953 - 1954." and "Area received two applications," but unspecified.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of Boggy Flats, near Cache, OK. Looking north of the junction in the road to Cut-throat Gap and Sugar Creek Spring. During the drought period of 1953-1956 this area was dominated by short grasses. Note the present vegetation containing a high percentage of little bluestem resulting from good management coupled with favorable climatic period. Taken during annual Soil Conservation Service cooperative grazing use check. OK-1583-7.
- Farming Equipment and Methods
- Photograph of Bob Tillerstanding in wheat field planted in sod with a Pasture Dream planter / drill at the Red River Valley Experiement Station.
- Farming Equipment and Methods
- Photograph of Sorghum Sudan grass planted without seedbed preparation with Pasture Dream planter / drill. 27 P5.
- A. W. Steglich
- Photograph of A. W. Steglich watching his cattle graze in a Bermuda pasture.
- Wild Grouse
- Photograph of a wild grouse.
- Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
- Photograph of Clinton Harbers’ Bermuda grass. Clinton Harbers is talking about his coastal Bermuda grass that lies on a rather sandy part of his farm. From left to right: Fred Case; Samuel Hertha; Dick Marshall; Clinton Harbers; D. G. Craig; Mabry Milhollin and Bob Aicher. TX-308-12.
- Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management
- Photograph of a plow pan, showing a close up view showing the plow pan left by the sweep when cover crop was cut loose. TX-309-12.
- Farming Equipment and Methods
- Photograph of Wade George examines hegira strip crop. He grows four rows of hegira to eight of peanuts. A rye cover crop and peanut hay left on the ground provide additional erosion protection. In 1949 and 1950 George had a 50-bushel-an-acre peanut yield. George has planted cover crops on his goober [synonym for "peanut'] acreage every year for 20 years. During that span of time, he has put in strip crops each year but one. III-12CT. TX-47-545.
- Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
- Photograph of Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician W. A. Morgan examining shaped and Bermuda-sodded collective outlet. Sodding was done in the spring of 1950. III - 7CT. TX-47, 546.
- Contour Farming
- Photograph of strip crops and cover crops on contour for wind and water erosion control. Rye cover crop was seeded immediately after peanuts were dug. Crotalaria in 4 rows, peanuts in 8 rows. Mr. Whit Sides says that the crotalaria prevents soil from blowing after the peanut harvest while also fixing nitrogen and humus to the soil. Where peanuts have already been harvested this year, Mr. Sides says he made from 2 to 3 bushels more per acre from the old crotalaria strips than he did on land where sorghum or other non-leguminous crops were planted last year. TX-41, 815.
- Contour Farming
- Photograph of strip crops and cover crops on contour for wind and water erosion control. Rye cover crop was seeded immediately after peanuts were dug. Crotalaria in 4 rows, peanuts in 8 rows. Mr. Whit Sides says that the crotalaria prevents soil from blowing after the peanut harvest while also fixing nitrogen and humus to the soil. Where peanuts have already been harvested this year, Mr. Sides says he made from 2 to 3 bushels more per acre from the old crotalaria strips than he did on land where sorghum or other non-leguminous crops were planted last year. TX-41, 815.
- Farming Equipment and Methods
- Photograph of strip cropping at Wade Farm. Single row of sudangrass used fro strip cropping this peanut land. The area between the single row of sudangrass has been planted to cover a crop of rye. A single row of sudan grass such as this does not do a good job of controlling wind erosion as does two rows. M.D. Gamble from Oklahoma is in the picture. TX-307-12.
- Farming Equipment and Methods
- Photograph of R.D. Walker, right, and John O. Simpson, SCS technician, left, in a strip crop of sudangras and guar [ a legume--aka, the Lond bean, or Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, the source of guar gum]. Walker gets additional erosion protection on his peanut lands from rye and vetch cover crop and by leaving peanut hay on the ground. III-12CT. TX-47-556.
- Churches
- Photograph of a sign indicating directions to the Round Grove Missionary Baptist Church, location not given in the photo, but derived below from entry 2019.061.B2.04171.
- Churches
- Photograph of the Reverend Murray Kay delivering a conservation sermon every year in observance of Soil Stewardship Sunday but he practices conservation the year-round on his farm in the Round Grove Community. He is a cooperator with the Upper Leon Soil Conservation District and is a member of the Round Grove group. Reverend Kay’s great-great grandfather is in the picture’s background. He founded the Round Grove Church in 1871 (the founder’s name was Ruben Rome). TX-46, 504.
- Conservation Planning
- Photograph of a typical meeting of the Round Grove Conservation Group at the community church. Dean Gardner, group leader, takes charge of the meeting. Reverend Murray Kay, great-grandson of the founder of the church, right foreground, is pastor of the church and a conservation farmer in the Round Grove Conservation Group. TX-46, 502.
- Watersheds
- Photograph of wave action damage on Site 4 Sergeant Major.
- Graded Border Irrigation System
- Photograph of graded Border Irrigation System. (4300 Acre). Water is pumped from Verdigris River at N. E. corner of 400 acre field. Water is shown running from feeder ditch through border to field tabs. Field to left of electric fence is in rye and vetch and has had one irrigation. An additional 300 acres will be leveled smoothed ditched and bordered and put into irrigation in 1956. The system designed provides drainage as well as irrigation.