AGRICULTURE

Background Information
Student Activities
Multimedia Items (Photo Galleries, Movies, Interviews)
Related WWW Links

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Background Information

• Agriculture: The Relationship Between Aboriginal Farmers and Non-Aboriginal Farmers
• Métis Colonies/Experimental Farms in Saskatchewan
• Métis Farming in Saskatchewan
• Grasshopper Campaigns in Saskatchewan During the 1930s - Learn about the grasshopper campaigns and the devastation that the grasshopper brought to Saskatchewan.
• Heavy Horses at Saskatchewan’s Fairs During the 1920s - Learn about the horses and their role in Saskatchewan before mechanical power.
• Rural Electrification in Saskatchewan During the 1950s - Learn more about how electricity made farm life easier.
• Forms of Energy on the Farm - The changes in forms of energy which have powered agricultural equipment from past to present.
• A detailed, labeled image of a combine.
• Image of cornshelling. Image of sweeppower. Image of windmill.
• A detailed, labeled image of a threshing machine.
• Dairy and Poultry - Will familiarize the students with equipment used for processing dairy and poultry products, circa 1920 and will acquaint the students with the production methods of milk and milk products.
• A complete listing of articles is available in Background Information.

Student Activities

• Agriculture Word search - The Pioneer Years - Students become familiar with the farming vocabulary of the pioneer years. (Source: Saskatchewan Western Development Museum's Teacher Handbook)
• Agriculture Word search (with hidden pioneer phrase) - In this word search, once you have found all the words, you will be able to spell out a well known pioneer phrase with the letters remaining. (Source: Saskatchewan Western Development Museum's Teacher Handbook)
• Changes in Farming Practices - A fill in the blank activity that covers many aspects about how farming has changed.

Multimedia Items (Photo Galleries, Interviews, Movies)

• CBC - The Depression Years: "Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, there's no place like Saskatchewan; we sit and gaze across the plain and wonder why it never rains…"

  These words from the song Saskatchewan were written during the 1930s, when Westerners suffered from severe drought conditions for almost a decade. In this 1958 radio clip from Assignment, the hosts look back at the difficulties of the Depression-era drought before playing this memorable ballad.
  

Please check our photo galleries for images on this theme.

Related WWW Links

History of Agriculture in Saskatchewan

• “The New Pioneers” Saskatchewan: The History of Agriculture - a six page PDF document on the history of agriculture in Saskatchewan
• Saskatchewan Interactive – The History of Agriculture