Display with labels of varieties of corn and a man standing at left to indicate the height of the crop. Varieties displayed are Wisconsin No. 7 Imp'd Early Leaning, Brown Co. Dent or Early Pride, Goldenglow and Murdock.
Display with labels of varieties of corn and a man standing at left to indicate the height of the crop. Varieties displayed are August Dent, Minnesota No. 23, Minnesota No. 13, Imp'd Early Leaning, etc.
Display with labels of varieties of corn and a man standing at left to indicate the height of the crop. Varieties displayed are Gehu, Fort Peck, Squaw Duke, Pop Corn, N. Western Dent Ferrie, and Quebec Yellow.
Display with labels of varieties of corn and a man and a child stand in front to indicate the height of the crop. Varieties displayed are Longfellow, North Dakota White Flint, Sunshine Dent, King Philip Duke, Rustlers White Dent, and Pioneer White Dent.
An enormous root system of a 3 year old Mr. Fairway variety crested wheat, which resists drought, controls weeds and discounts soil drifting; plant was excavated by T.K Pavlychenko.
[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.
Mark Jordon, CP Fellowship recipient, is seated at a table in his lab. Mr. Jordon's research through the Western Canadian Agricultural Research Program involved the use of biotechnology to improve flax resistant to GLEAN (used by farmers to control broadleaf weeds in wheat), and higher tolerance to frost and salt.
