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McGregor, J. A., Assistant in Field Husbandry (1913-1914); Lecturer in Field Husbandry (1914-1915), 300 Administration Building.
J. A. McGregor was appointed to the staff of the Field Husbandry Department in the fall of 1913. A former student, he entered College in 1907 and remained for two years. Although able and industrious, he nevertheless returned to the home farm, where he successfully applied principles he had been taught in the classroom. He became involved in activities and organizations designed to improve conditions in the rural community, including extension work for the college in 1911. For the next two winters, he was in charge of “all the short courses at Dauphin and Hamiota, and other points on the main line west of Brandon.” A capable lecturer with a “forceful manner of speech” and “air of practicability,” he was always able to present his subject effectively, a factor which contributed to his appointment in Field Husbandry in 1913.
The M.A.C. Gazette, v. VII, no. 2 (Nov. 1913), p. 98-99. (picture included)
McGregor replaced Prof. T. J. Harrison, B.S.A., Assistant in Field Husbandry, who had been appointed Superintendent of the Dominion Experimental Farm at Indian Head, Saskatchewan in July 1913.