Students Judging a class of draft horses; Livestock Pavilion and Rutherford Rink in background.

Bio/Historical Note: By 1910, 19 horses had been purchased by the College of Agriculture that were good work horses or suitable for student class work. Two were purebred Clydesdales. Three light horses were also purchased. One named Barney was used in the morning to deliver milk to faculty in Nutana and in the afternoon on the buggy as Dean William R. Rutherford made his farm rounds. In 1920 the province asked the Animal Husbandry Department to establish a Clydesdale breeding stud. This led to development of an outstanding collection of prize winning horses that became a focus of the department. In the 1920s the Percheron and Belgian breeders also demanded support for their breeds and some cross breeding was undertaken. The campus horses were used for field work for all departments, general hauling and site work for new buildings. An unofficial use was for the Lady Godiva ride across campus each fall. By the 1940s it was clear that the era of horses as a main source of farm power was over. The final stallion used in the breeding program was the imported "Windlaw Proprietor," grand champion stallion at the 1946 Royal Winter Fair.

Men, horses and wagons at work in a grain field; separator blows straw onto a stack.

Fields with rows of plants in foreground; view from northeast with the College Building and Saskatchewan Hall in background.

Students posing with threshing machines and other agricultural equipment as part of the threshing machine short course offered by Agricultural Engineering.

A man on a Titan 10-20 tractor pulling a poultry house across a field.

Individual photographs of graduates grouped. Names: Kingdon, F.A.; Adamko, E.I.; Nawrocki, O.J.; Johnstone, R.W.; Barsness, R.M.; Pedersen, J.B.; Robertson, R.K.; Fender, W.D.; Wedrick, H.J.; Copithorne, K.F.; Easton, L.F.; Willett, J.W.; Smith, R.P.; Reinhardt, G.G.; Bjornson, H.H.; Culler, C.H.; Hextall, E.L.; Jensen, H.C.; Brown, J.M.; Wilson, W.L.; Hasel, H.; Harris, N.L.; Neufeldt, R.E.; McGowan, H.N.; Mountford, W.A.; Hoogeveen, L.A.; Turner, S.H.; Wilson, D.W.; Evans, J.A.; Vogt, P.G.; Bethune, R.J.; Thomson, D.B.; Morningstar, R.L.; Barnsley, W.F.; Penner, D.E.

Students observing a typical demonstration in the welding lab.

Members of class seated in classroom in Kirk Hall. View from back of classroom looking towards instructor.

Attendees seated in Livestock Pavilion during a convention. Alexander M. Shaw, W. Jaffrey H. Tisdale, and [W.P.] Thompson are identified. Several men have buttons and ribbons on their coats. Small boy in foreground; flag and crossed batons in background.

Students working in carpentry shop stations looking at camera.

Formal/Studio portrait of Dr. Roly St. Arnaud, professor, Saskatchewan Institute of Pedology (Soil Science).

A truck delivers cement to the Biology Building construction site.

Bio/Historical Note: The W.P. Thompson Biology Building is named after Walter Palmer Thompson, the University of Saskatchewan's third president and founder of the Biology Department (1913). Designed by Izumi, Arnott and Sugiyama, it was constructed between 1957 and 1959 and officially opened in 1960. Set back from the Bowl, the flat-roofed cube style building was located between the Collegiate Gothic architecture of the Chemistry and Physics Buildings. It originally consisted of a teaching wing and a research wing but a header and greenhouse complex was added in 1962. Unlike many other Canadian universities the Department of Biology remained a single unit, balancing diverse sub-disciplines rather than separating into several distinct departments. Prior to the building's opening in 1960, work in biological sciences was scattered among four campus locations. Perhaps the most striking of the building’s features is the mural of mosaic tiles that adorns the south and west exterior walls. The mural depicts the four main stages of cellular mitosis. The artist, Roy Kiyooka, chose chromosome patterns as a testament to Dr. Thompson's important discoveries regarding the genetics of wheat rust. In 1986, the Geology Building was completed on the south side of Biology, resulting in the transformation of the south façade from an exterior into an interior wall, part of a new atrium.

J.W.T. Spinks, University President, speaks during official opening.

View of the crowd seated in the Bowl during the official opening of the Biology Building.

Attendees seated indoors during a convention in Regina; several men with ribbons on coats. Attendees identified are: Raymond K. Baker, Samuel E. Greenway, M. Smith, Walter C. Murray, University President; William J. Rutherford, dean of Agriculture, Alexander M. Shaw and Leslie Quick are identified. Flags hang on wall in background.