Test plots of the Seed Barn in foreground. Sign at centre of photograph reads: "Variety Tests Western Rye Grass Strains Crested Wheat Grass". Rutherford Rink under construction in the distance.
Mrs. G. Laird presents a cheque for $25,000 to Dr. Douglas R. Knott, director of the Crop Development Centre. Others in the photograph are: Frank Lovell, Jack McFaull, J.A. Brown, and R.W. Begg.
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.
Extinction dates of the Pleistocene mammals in North America. More than half of these 16 mammals seem to have died out between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago. (McGowan and Hester, 1962, p. 196).
[Professor Garnet H. Cutler] sits in a horse drawn cart in a field.
Bio/Historical Note: Garnet Homer Cutler (1882-1962) was appointed head of the Field Husbandry Department in May 1917. He graduated in 1909 with a BSA from Guelph (Ontario) Agricultural College. His first appointment was in the Cereal Husbandry Department of the Macdonald Agricultural College in Quebec. Cutler joined the U of S as Cereal Husbandry professor in 1913.
R.W. Begg, University President, accepts a cheque from J.Y. (Jack) McFaull representing the Space Engineering Division Systems Limited.
Bio/Historical Note: The University of Saskatchewan's Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies joined in 1965 with university scientists and researchers to form the Space Engineering Division (later known as SED Systems Incorporated). SED supplies both systems and services to the satellite industry. SED is located in the Innovation Place Research Park on the U of S campus.
Marilyn Truscott of Glidden, Saskatchewan, a PhD candidate in geological sciences at the University of Saskatchewan, makes use of an electron probe x-ray microanalyzer. Mrs. Truscott uses the machine to analyze samples of volcanic rock from the Sweetgrass Hills in Montana. She is obtaining information that will help provide a more complete picture of the geological history of the Western Plains.