Poultry Convention - Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
- A-3910
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- June 1960
Group photo of participants (including five women) seated and standing outside in front of Valley Centre building.
Poultry Convention - Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
Group photo of participants (including five women) seated and standing outside in front of Valley Centre building.
Poultry Centre - Official Opening
Egg-hatching ceremony during official opening of the University's Poultry Centre. From l to r: Alan D. Reed, Director, Physical Plant; Don Ravis, MP for Saskatoon East; and Lorne Hepworth, Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture. A live Barred Plymouth Rock chick took part in the simulated hatching.
Poultry and Grain Exhibition - Melfort, Saskatchewan
Poultry in wire cages at left and bags of seeds on display on tables at right. Two unidentified men standing; indoor scene.
W.J. Rae examining a dressed "Bronze" turkey.
Bio/Historical Note: Wilfrid John Rae was professor and head, Department of Poultry Science, between 1929 and 1966.
Poultry - Saskatoon Exhibition
Series of two photos showing the interior of a room with tables of dressed turkeys and carcasses of pork hanging in background.
Bio/Historical Note: The Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture gave every encouragement to poultry producers to improve the quality of their market. "Poultry Public", fattening stations were established and numerous killing and fattening demonstrations were given.
Poultry - Moose Jaw Exhibition
Series of three photos showing live turkeys in wire cages and tables of dressed turkeys ready for judging.
Bio/Historical Note: The Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture gave every encouragement to poultry producers to improve the quality of their market. "Poultry Public", fattening stations were established and numerous killing and fattening demonstrations were given.
Several rows of small box-like structures with openings encased with mesh wiring, sitting in a field. Building and fence in the background.
Bio/historical note: This was the first year of operation. Brooding hens were used as foster mothers.
view of a small slant roofed shed, surrounded by a mound of [manure] in a fenced-in enclosure. Building the background; winter scene.
Long low building with windows across the front and four ventilators on the roof. Shrubs in the foreground and other buildings in the background.
Many small slant roof buildings with fenced in enclosures. White chickens in the yards.
Two men working on building a feed room. Buildings, chickens within enclosures in the background.
Small gable roof building with open spaces in the front, on skids in a field.
Long low building with openings along the front, other buildings to the right of the picture.
Houses in the distance with the University of Saskatchewan Prairie Farm Rehabilitation building on the right. Fenced in enclosures in the foreground.
Long low building with windows across the front. Man standing in centre front, his head reaches the eve. Other buildings in the background.