Collection search - Research Branch, Prairie Region, Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Experimental Farm, Superintendent's Office Records [textual record]

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Research Branch, Prairie Region, Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Experimental Farm, Superintendent's Office Records [textual record]

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Date:

1908-1980

Reference:

RG17, 1987-88/005 GAD

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

44551

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Date(s):

1908-1980

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

96.30 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid 17-36 is a box list. The finding aid is available as a PDF attached to this record. 17-36 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/17-36_44551_open.pdf

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This accession contains the records of the Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Experimental Farm. The farm was established by order-in-council in February 1888 as one of the first five federal experimental farms. These farms were authorized by the Experimental Farm Station Act of 1886. At that time, the farm was responsible for the entire North-West Territories. Its main function was to introduce practical farming techniques to settlers who were arriving in the West with little knowledge of farming conditions and prospects in the region. The particular challenges of Western agriculture - water shortages, wind erosion of soil, and a short growing season - received the farm's greatest attention. The farm refined and promoted the technique of summer fallowing to conserve soil moisture, helped test and distribute the quickly ripening, high yield marquis wheat developed at the Central Experimental Farm, and extensively promoted tree-planting for shelter belts. Indian Head also played a significant role in the development of other outstanding varieties of wheat such as the Reward and Garnet. Between 1935 and 1959, the farm was responsible for all the federal illustration stations in eastern Saskatchewan and from 1935 to 1946 it administered the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration soil reclamation projects. This accession contains documentation of each of these principal functions of the farm.

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Government

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R194-131-6-E
R194-131-6-F
RG17-B-VII-3-a

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RG17

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1987-88/005 GAD
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Textual records

[Consultation32 Restricted by law]

Box [RG17 1987-88/005] 1--11

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [RG17 1987-88/005] 12--321

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

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