Students standing around a table with a plucked chicken; some students taking notes.

Bio/Historical Note: Walter C. Murray, University President, saw that the College of Agriculture would keep the university close to the life of the people. Between 1909-1912, before they had teaching space, the agriculture faculty developed the agriculture farm and traveled doing extension work, most significantly, with the Better Farming Train. The Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture, W.R. Motherwell, supported extension work with tax revenue funds. In October 1912, the first agriculture class was taught. Both a 3-year associate course and a degree course were available. In 1937 the associate program became the School of Agriculture. The school responded to local farming problems by teaching and research and with new departments directed to these areas.

Participants standing around some wire cages in a classroom, some holding chickens, others taking notes. Instructor in foreground; poster on wall in background.

Two-horse team [Percherons] hitched to a sleigh in front of a [castle school in Saskatoon]; brick building and man in background. Perhaps the castle school is Albert School or Buena Vista School.

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 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 so they were included in the university stud 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.

First- year students at the School of Agriculture taking back fat measurements on market hogs, under the guidance of instructor Dr. Bruce D. Owen.

Group photo of School of Agriculture graduates. Names: Burns, W.; Collins, W.; Farstad, L.; Fraser, T.; Leask, J.; McKenzie, E.; Mysak, S.; Parker, H.; Rachman, H.; Rasmusson, L.; Rowles, Charles Arthur (Chuck); Smith, G.; Whewell, E.; Wilner, J.

Group photograph of graduates. Names: Hadley Van Vliet; Blake, R.W.; Heron, D.G.; Langhorne, N.A.; Bibbey, R.O.; Moor, T.D.; Davey, A.D.; McCarthy, D.E.; Claydon, J.S.; Rowatt, G.E.

Group photo of School of Agriculture graduates. Names: Eutineier, C.P.; McMahon, H.A.; Elderkin, D.L.; McCurdy, E.V.; MacFarlane, D.G.; Jackson, J.H.; Mooney, Orrin R.; Klinck, J.R.; Swann, J.K.; Shevenek, W.; Horner, H.W.; Schwangart, W.; Stutt, R.A.; Evans, F.W.; Ballard, H.M.; Metheral, Vernon Richard.

Students seated and facing instructor in a agricultural mechanics class. View from back of room looking towards instructor. Backboard and diagrams behind instructor.

Second-year students of the School of Agriculture in a soil field study taken during registration period, and are lined up for a coffee break.

A group of students gathered around a machine in the machine shop.

Four students working on an engine in the machine shop.

Dr. Doug Knott (left), professor, Crop Science (Field Husbandry) Department, standing with students in a greenhouse and looking at a stand of grain.

Bio/Historical Note: The Field Husbandry Building was conceived and constructed as a direct result of the fire that destroyed the Engineering Building in 1925. The Department of Field Husbandry, which had moved to Engineering four years earlier, lost its entire seed stock to the blaze. The Engineering Building that rose from the ashes was not, however, to include the Department of Field Husbandry. They were to have their own new and separate structure. Designed by David Brown, the stone clad structure was finished in 1929 at a cost of $260,000 and contained offices, classrooms and laboratories. The building also acted as a screen to mask the brick portion of campus from the buildings around the Bowl. In 1937 an addition, designed by local architect and University lecturer G.J.K. Verbeke, extended the building northward. The School of Medical Science moved into the addition from their cramped quarters in the College Building and stayed until the completion of the Medical College in 1950. Field Husbandry changed its name to Crop Science in 1962 and remained in the building until the College of Agriculture Building was completed in 1991. In 1997 the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology moved into the building, which was renamed accordingly. The Department of Anthropology was amalgamated with the Department of Religious Studies and relocated from the building in 2002; the building was subsequently renamed the Archaeology Building.