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PASTURE TOUR - CALDER DISTRICT

  • FILM R-3554.1
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  • 1990 or before

Agricultural trims: Negative film with scenes of men inspecting cleared pasture land, men inspecting empty animal pens, a demonstration on artificial insemination of cattle, an operating wind-powered water well, and a a gasoline-powered water well.

Saskatchewan. Department of Agriculture

Tour of northern Saskatchewan pasture development by Department of Agriculture officials

Views of a tour of northern Saskatchewan pasture development projects by the Minister of the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture and other department officials. 01: Hon. I.C. Nollet, Minister of Agriculture, shuts a gate. 02: Hon. Nollet chats with a pasture development crewman at the crew's bunk car. 03: Lorne Glendinning (left) a Department of Agriculture Construction and Development Branch pasture development supervisor, Hon. Nollet and W.H. Horner, deputy minister of Agriculture, discuss the problems of rocks in some northern pasture land. 04: Hon. Nollet with a saddle horse on the Cookson pasture, northwest of Prince Albert. 05: Bush land is being cleared for the development of pastures. 06: W.H. Horner examines a ditch in the Nipawin area while local Department agricultural representative Bob Strilchuk, Hon. Nollet and field men stand at the top of the bank. 07: W.H. Horner (right), Lorne Glendinning and another man stand in a field with Walter Mysak of Canora (right foreground). 08: Hon. Nollet tries out a crawler type of tractor pulling a large roller that is used to pack down new land before it is seeded for pasture land. 09: Hon. Nollet stands on a bush cutter. 10: Crawler type tractors with bull dozer blades are used to clear trees on new land in the Calder district. 11: Mr. Thompson (left) a reeve for the local rural municipality, Hon. Nollet, and W.H. Horner stand in a thriving alfalfa pasture that had been developed by the Department of Agriculture. 12: Lorne Glendinning and W.H. Horner examine land that was cleared of bush for pasture development. 13: A field with a windrow at left. Windrows are located approximately 200 feet apart when trees are cleared and pasture land is developed. 14: Cook cars on the White Beach pasture. 15: Hon. Nollet, W.H. Horner and Lorne Glendinning examine a tooth of a heavy-duty brush piler on the White Beach pasture. 16: Department of Agriculture agricultural representative Maurice Brounstein of Kamsack. 17: Hon. Nollet, W.H. Horner, and Bob Strilchuk, a Department agricultural representative at Nipawin, chat about the heavy timbers that were pulled down with a roam plow to develop pasture land. 18: Lorne Stalwick, a Construction and Development Branch representative from Saskatoon, climbs over a windrow in the Cookson pasture. 19: New grass is growing well on a developed pasture land on the Mastadum pasture. 20: Hon. Nollet and W.H. Horner examine recently-plowed land in preparation for a new pasture. 21: Hon. Nollet examines a squeeze gate at the White Beach pasture. 22: Hon. Nollet, Walter Mysak, an agricultural representative at Canora, and Pete Petersen, an agricultural representative at Yorkton examine pasture development from waste land. 23: Department officials, including Hon. Nollet (centre) and W.H. Horner (left of Nollet) examine the White Beach pasture. 24: An abundance of grass grows in a developed pasture, making for healthy cattle. 25: Lorne Stalwick (right) chats with a local contractor who sharpens the blade of a bush cutter in the Cookson pasture. 26: A group chats with Woody Wilson, a supervisor of operations for northern Saskatchewan with the Construction and Development Branch. 27: Land breaking operations with roam plows in the Donlands pasture. 28: (Left to right): Maurice Brounstein; Hon. Nollet; Walter Mysak; and Lorne Glendinning stand in a pasture. 29: Woody Wilson and Dr. William Coupland, head of the Department of Plant Ecology at the University of Saskatchewan stand in a luxuriant growth of grasses in the Donlands pasture. 30: W.H. Horner (foreground), Hon. Nollet and Woody Wilson examine the operation of a roam plow as a new pasture is being developed. 31: Hon. Nollet rides a saddle horse in the Cookson pasture northwest of Prince Albert. 32: Fencing is erected to keep cattle out of a dugout on the Donlands pasture. 33: Hon. Nollet (left), Bob Strilchuk and another man examine the operation of a roam plow. 34: Recently-erected fencing in a pasture. 35: W.H. Horner examines the structure of a drainage ditch in the Nipawin district. Flax straw is covered with a special net to prevent soil erosion. 36: Maurice Brounstein and Hon. Nollet stand in a corral constructed on pasture land. 37: Exterior view of the Agra Vegetable plant at Tisdale. 38: Hon. Nollet examines the hoof of the A.I. technician's saddle horse at the Cookson pasture. The technician and his wife live in this cook car during the six weeks when the operations are underway. 39: Hon. Nollet examines a large roller used to firm down the pasture land before it is seeded in the Hudson Bay district. 40: Hon. Nollet and W.H. Horner observe the area. 41: Lorne Stalwick and a local contractor discuss operations in front of the blade of a bush cutter. 42: Hon. Nollet and Dr. William Coupland with some of the cattle on a pasture developed by the Department of Agriculture. 43: Hon. Nollet, local reeve for the Garrick district Mr. Thompson, councillor Ken Keeping, and W.H. Horner stand in front of a community well in the Garrick district. 44: Agricultural representative at Nipawin, Bob Strilchuk. 45: on. Nollet and W.H. Horner look at a good stock of cattle owned by local farmers on the Cookson pasture. 46: W.H. Horner looks at the excellent grass and good cattle on the Cookson pasture. 47: Hon. Nollet and W.H. Horner look at a good stock of cattle owned by local farmers on the Cookson pasture. 48: Agricultural representative for the Hudson Bay district, John Hanson. 49: Corrals on the White Beach pasture. 50: Bob Strilchuk looks at a steer, typical of the quality on the Donlands pasture. 51: Watering facilities with windmill and tanks, and a dugout in the distance. The windmill operates a pump which draws the water from a dugout and forces it into the tanks so that the cattle can get a drink when they want it.

McConnell, John J.