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In 1901 the size of an average Canadian farm was 50 hectares (124 acres).
Newly planted shelterbelt in 1963.
Seedlings were provided by the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration.
Strip cropping in dry lands area south of Taber, AB in 1957.
Strip farming near Taber, Alberta in 1957.
Wooden grain elevators are a disappearing piece of Saskatchewan landscape as they are replaced with concrete terminals.
The combine harvester first came into use in the 1890's.
In 1900 a homestead cost ten dollars for a 160 acre piece of land and farmers were given the title to the land if they lived on it, cultivated at least 40 acres and built a house on it.
Prairie family making chop for their livestock.
Settlers traveled in early spring at a rate of 27 km. per day if they used oxen and 45 km. per day if they used horses.
Feeding geese in Southern Saskatchewan.
3.3 million people lived on Canadian farms in 1931.
In 1907 most children went to school in a one room school house. Teachers were unmarried young women, marriage disqualified them from teaching.
Shelterbelt of Caragana hedges at the tree nursery station of Saskatoon in 1963.
In the 1950's, strip farming became a key word in Saskatchewan agriculture as it was an effective control against soil drifting.
Settlers would use horse and plow to break the land.
Aerial view of farmland near Melfort, SK in 1968.
In 1900 one farm fed only 12 people per year.
This field was fallowed by a Noble Blade which was invented in 1936 by Albertan Charles Noble.
Aerial view of Saskatchewan creek.
Tree planting near Hanley, SK in 1963.
Aerial view of shelterbelt near Conquest, SK in 1964.
Aerial view of farmland near Conquest, SK in 1962.

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