R.J. St. Arnaud instructs a first year class in auditorium of Kirk Hall. Painting of wild cattle, and windows along wall.

Three students in the woodwork shop.

Class in session with E. Bowlee speaking and instructor R.A. Dodds seated.

Class members in a soil field study with W. Van Haulem (centre) instructing. Identified are B. Sproule, E. Higgin and A. Mewis,

Students learning the art of cutting meat in a livestock project.

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.

E. Bowler, H. Hasel, C. Culler and M. Slater, Agriculture students, working in a laboratory.

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.

Instructor B.D. Owen is showing four students some finer points in Animal Husbandry in the University of Saskatchewan Livestock Pavilion.

Class underway in a farm machinery lab; view of back of class towards instructor.

Lecture is being given to the first year class. Classroom has double windows and a painting of wild cattle on the background wall.

Two male students, one reclining on a bed the other seated at a desk. Samples of grain and pictures on the background wall.