Grinding Feed at Melfort Research Station
Parte deMelfort General Photo collection
A hay-drying tower, the first on the continent, was built in 1971. It had a capacity of more than 80 tonnes dry matter. The first forage systems engineer, Dr.W. Coates, was hired in 1973,
Threshing Crew on Stafford and Jamieson Ranch
A team of horses hitched to a hay wagon, a threshing crew on the Stafford & Jameson ranch near Melfort, Saskatchewan
Three men and a woman stand in front of steel-wheeled steamer tractor; identified as (from right to left): Dad, Ed, Lionel, Yvonne.
Director’s house at the Melfort Research Station
Parte deMelfort General Photo collection
Exterior view of the Director’s house at the Melfort Research station. It was a 1 1/2 story house with a veranda and was located on the southwest side of the building area. Adolf Kaminski, Tim Wright, Dennis Ewanus were some of the people who lived there.
Jack McPhail and his wife Betty (Minnie).
Parte deMelfort General Photo collection
Black and white photograph of Melfort Research Station Superintendent Jack McPhail and his wife Betty (Minnie) around 1940.
Thrashing [sic] with a steam outfit. Men standing on top of threshing equipment.
Blowing straw into barn loft at left; wood pile and building on right.
A group of men standing next to a tractor and wood splitter; large pile of cut wood in foreground.