Cattle eating out of troughs at the Melfort Research Station; there is a truck in the background that has been dumping the feed.

A table with a variety of vaccines and needles at the Melfort Research Station; men in background vaccinating cattle.

A major cattle management project, in co-operation with the province of Saskatchewan, was initiated in 1974 with the purchase of 280 Hereford heifers and the provision by the province of 1.5 sections of land at the Pathlow Community Pasture.

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,

Two men ( names unknown at this time) standing beside a square baler and feed processor. Bales are being piled in front of them.

Man on tractor dumping a bale into a grinder. Another man on a tractor controlling the grinder. There is snow on the ground. Names are unknown at this time.

The sheep barn divided into pens used for lambing. There a is a person walking down the isle. This barn was moved from Snowden, Sk. to the Research Station.

Forage harvesting research was started in 1971 in co-operation with the Engineering Research Service at Ottawa. Forage produced under various systems was evaluated by feeding to beef cattle. 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 was hired in 1973 Dr. W. Coates. The metal roof, suspended with a winch system, is supported by 4, H beams, bolted to metal plates anchored in concrete piles.

Six men standing on or near a threshing operation near Naisberry, Saskatchewan. Harry Sharp, Wm. Watt, Roy Clyde and A.D. Young. Two others are unidentified.

Students of the Broadway School on its front steps 1914. Back Row: L to R: Reg Lancaster, Mac Irvine, Verne Leake, Beverly Leake, Katie Sparrow (now Mrs. Elmo Price), Allardyce Code, Kathleen Slinn, Ruth Code, Alice Clift (Mrs. J. Hopkins), Helen Johnson, Kathleen Clift (Mrs. Sam Smith), Mable Lovell; Centre Row: Clifford Whitmore, Rollo Bedham, Levita McNaughton, Ruby Severson, Myrtle Hodgenson, Laura Roberts, Lizzie Leathem, Ruth Elliott, Nellie Slinn, Hazel Rusk, Lily smith, Laura Lovell, Mattie Simpson. Bottom Row: Arthur Lindsay, Harold Long, Stacey Foster, Elmo Price, Henry Clark, Charles Davidson, Emerson Wittig, Hans Nelson, Axel Monsees, Arthur Foster, Dick Dawson.

The Rusk family had seven sons and one daughter. The daughter died in her early 20's.

John Flett family - 1928 - Back Row: Dave, John, James, Norman - Front Row: Gertie (Leighton) Mrs. Flett, John Flett, Christie Hall

A portrait of Christie Flett standing next to a small table in a long fur coat and fringed hat.

Sledges and cabooses stopped at Fletts Livery barn on Saskatchewan Ave., Melfort.

Winter scene of the Melfort Post Office and Armory