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Farming-Agriculture 1900 - Doukhobor women pulling a plow. 1909 1912 Harvesting in the Saskatoon District 1920-1925 Harvesting 16 miles South West of Regina, SK. 1912 1916 1916 1918 1934 1930 August, 1902 1910 1920 1899 1886 – 1950 1910 1926 1930 1917 1920-1930 1907 Alec Howard with chickens. Haying Berry pickers north-west of Hanley - near Beaver Creek Soldier Settlers Leave to Find Homesteads Violet McNaughton Hauling Water With Horses Corline Convery of Ernfold milking a cow. 1915 1915 1916 New and old barns. 1915 About 1912 1914 1943 1911-1912. 1928-1930 Team of oxen pulling stumps. 1946 1911 1915 1911 1918 Haying near Scott, SK around 1910. Hayloader Make-a-tractor pulling a binder, circa 1923. 1902 1912 1899 Tea time 1907 1912-1914 Threshing outfit, circa 1910. circa 1900 1911 1905 John Deere combine, circa 1930. 1928 circa 1925 1925 circa 1925 About 1900 1905 1922 Moose Jaw, SK. 1918 1905 1868-1923 1911 1912 1912 1928 Near Major, SK. 1928 1928 Near Hodgeville, SK. Cutting Marquis Wheat at Beatty, SK. Cutting wheat by tractor, Perdue, SK. Discing and Harrowing on a Saskatchewan Farm. A Harvester Thresher on a Saskatchewan Farm Cutting oats on Canameira Farm - Wilkie, SK. Harvesting 15 miles S.W. of Sedley, SK. 1910 July 25, 1931 1902 Doukhobor women hitched to a breaking plow, with a man guiding the plow. The women are in blouses and long peasant-style skirts, with pointed headgear. This photo was reportedly taken in the Blaine Lake area around the turn of the century. The custom of women pulling plows has been attributed to lack of resources to buy draft animals and the absence of their menfolk, who were often away working at other jobs. Breaking near Moose Jaw, SK. Melville Security elevator - Melville, SK. Steam threshing outfit - Perdue, SK. John Harasmchuk with oxen - Smuts, SK. Dmitro Lazurak harvesting - St. Julien, SK. Prokop Kindrachuk threshing on his farm - St. Julien, SK. Ukrainian family harvesting Tractor and threshing machine partially buried in drifted sandy soil - Cadillac, SK. Threshing wheat at Melfort, SK. Farm of Mr. Holden near Indian Head N.W.T. Cutting and stooking on Fred Engen's farm - SK. Turkey raising is a profitable sideline on many farms - Loverna, SK. Doukhobor women winnowing grain Threshing machine in operation - St. Walburg, SK. Farm of A. Buhler - Warman, SK. Israël Hoffer and Jewish farmboys clearing stones from land, Sommerfeld Colony - Oungre, SK. Isaac Blatt and sons Henry and Jack stooking wheat sheaves, Sommerfeld Colony - Oungre, SK. N. Bolgar digging potatoes, Lipton Colony - Lipton, SK. Mr. Tronczak, an immigrant from Poland, breaking new land on his farm in the Henribourg district. View of J. Powell's farm - Kenaston, SK. Whitewood district - 1915 1930's Soldier settlers with their oxen and supplies set out from Prairie River, SK, for Carragana, SK - 1929 Mrs.Violet McNaughton driving a team of horses hauling water - 1910's. 1923 Wilson Brothers Farm - Harris, SK. Wilson Brothers Farm - Harris, SK. Smith Ranch - Leader, SK. The ranch contains 10,000 acres. 2,000 acres under irrigation and is largest alfalfa and corn farm in Saskatchewan. In 1914, this was the biggest barn in North America. Sign on new barn reads Lakeview Farm, 1910. Barn building Double cylinder Gaar - Scott steam tractor and Cockshutt plows working in Saskatchewan. Rumely 36 HP double cyclinder hauling plows, packers, seeder and harrows burning flax straw for fuel "I own one of your thirty horse steamers, which was purchased in 1910 in the spring and the engine is as good as new. Have just finished plowing, packing, floating, seeding and harrowing on hundred acres in six days.This was all done at the same time. Engine easily handling the whole outfit, used flax straw and actual outlay of cash was $7.00 for oil. We are well pleased with our purchase." Your truly, Joseph N. Gaudreau The tractor is a 2 plow comfort cab - Minneapolis-Moline RT Universal 1939 model. Yellow body with red wheels. The cab had roll up and down side windows. The windshield was 2 piece. The back doors were easy to remove with screws. Taken on the Ray Bold farm - 1/2 mile north of Crown Hill - 5 miles west of Marcelin or 6 miles north of Blaine Lake. Taken in the fall of 1943 - cutting oats. Rumely OilPull sold by Knowles and McLung, Wilkie., SK. Brush piling with tractor and homemade piler W.J. Johnson on a crawler tractor clearing brush. 10-20 HP Mogul tractor breaking sod with a 4-bottom plow. Marshall 32 - 60/70 H.P. - pulling 10 bottom plow. Tractor attachment to automobile. Note this outfit is turning 5 furrows - an unusual load for one of these attachments. Breaking at Zealandia, SK. Wheat harvest at Warman, SK. Grain cutting at Moose Jaw, SK. First stook loader in Saskatchewan With a loader and four large bow racks, can thresh more grain with eleven men than could with 16 men with the two horse basket racks. A field of stooked grain at Indian Head, N.W.T. Part of a threshing outfit - Came west from Ontario. Centre building is the cookhouse and the building to the left is the bunkhouse. Gull Lake, SK. - Gaar-Scott steam engine driving Advance thresher outfit. Crew with portable straw-burning steam engine. Steam threshing outfit near Asquith, SK. Compound engine driving thresher Fourteen horses pulling a No. 11 McCormick - Deering combine on Peacock Brothers farm at Yellow Grass, SK. John Deere tractor-drawn combine. John Deere tractor and combine Horse-drawn combine with 8-horse team. Probably southern Alberta or Saskatchewan Matador Ranch - cattle about to swim the South Saskatchewan River north at Waldeck, SK. Ed McBain's horses Near Grenfell, SK. Three horses pulling a two wheel "sulky" plow. Fall plowing on the prairies about 1905. Old and New Homesteads Weitzen Farm Middleton Farm - Breaking sod with Big 4 tractors. Middleton Farm - Breaking sod with Big 4 tractors. F.Faundrick of Mazenod, SK. at the wheel of his McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor which is pulling a McCormick-Deering 10 foot harvester thresher. Two threshing outfits operated by McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractors on the farm of John T. Moscrip. Rear view of 16 foot McCormick-Deering combine, Druid, SK. McCormick-Deering 10 foot combine in Saskatchewan. Farmall operating McCormick-Deering 10 foot tractor binder. Sheep on the Western Prairies Drought conditions showing drifting soil along a fence between Cadillac and Kincaid. Theodor Moeller's steam engine threshing outfit. First steam engine in Strasbourg, Sk. area.
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