Series EXP - Experimental Farm

Rear-view  of a Model 3920-554 Sprayer Side View of a Model 3920-524 Sprayer Field Day. Mr. Davidson Speaking at Rod Row Variety Test Mr. J.G. Davidson, Indian Head,  Speaking at Rod Row variety Test, July 1950 Mr. J. Roe Foster, Regina, Speaking at the Field Day, 1950. Speaker at Field Day 1950. J. Roe Foster Field day. July 23/51. Mr. Foster Speaking E. A. Hurd. Dr. E. S. Hopkins. J. Roe Foster. In a plot of 0AC21 Barley. July 28. 1952 Indian Head Forest Nursery Station. Bernard Bosgoed with Graham Hoeme Cultivator Mr. Walker. Forest Nursery Station Addresses Farmers at Field Day Superintendant's residence, Experimental Farm, Indian Head, Sask Seeding at the Experimental Farm Experimental Farm plaque Anniversary booklet for the Indian Head Experimental Farm 1886-1986
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Experimental Farm

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11 photographs; b&w : (digital copies)

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(1867 - present)

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The Experimental Farm Series contains photos, maps and textual records of the Government of Canada’s Indian Head Experimental Farm – now the Indian Head Research Farm.
Angus MacKay, who had come to Indian Head as a settler, became the first superintendent. It originally occupied Section 19, Township 18, Range 12, West of 2, which was purchased from the Bell Farm, and Section 30 (the North Farm) was added later. The main office is at coordinates 50.5328; -103.6520.
Angus MacKay’s priorities in the first years were to find and demonstrate adapted cereal crops, vegetables, fruits and shelter trees and shrubs for prairie settlers. The shelterbelt trees and shrubs were in such high demand that a separate Forest Nursery Station (Tree Nursery) was created by the federal government south of Indian Head on an unused “school quarter” in 1901.
The archival materials span the entire history of the Experimental Farm / Research Farm, including stories like the testing and introduction of Marquis wheat, long-term crop rotations, summerfallowing, direct seeding and livestock research. There is information about many past employees and there are many publications that originated from this important and historic research station.

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It was selected in October, 1887, as one of the Canadian government’s four regional experimental farms which reported to the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa - the others being at Nappan, Nova Scotia; Brandon, Manitoba; and Agassiz, BC.

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