41.05.85

Print, Photographic

1935

5 1/4" x 3" black and white photograph of the station truck packed and ready for the parade to Waseca Day at the Minnesota State Fair, September 1935; sign on the sign of the truck reads, "University of Minnesota, S. E. Exp. Station, Waseca, No. 3; sign above the truck reads, "Homozygous Hogs, Inbred for Eight Generations at Waseca; on the truck bed is a load of Minhybrid Corn; truck is parked beside a concrete block building.

In August 1912, the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents purchased 246 acres of land half a mile to the south and west of Waseca on the edge of the city limits. The Southeast Demonstration Farm and Experiment Station began operations in 1913. In 1925, the Southeast Demonstration and Experiment Station became the Southeast Experiment Station. In 1941, with an additional land purchase, the station totaled 598 acres. Land was set aside for the Southern School of Agriculture (SSA) which admitted its first students in 1953. In 1969, the Southern School of Agriculture evolved into the University of Minnesota Technical College-Waseca then it was renamed as the University of Minnesota-Waseca (UMW), sharing land with the newly named Southern Experiment Station (SES). In 1992, UMW graduated its final class and then the UMW campus buildings were sold to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In 1999, the Southern Experiment Station became the Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC).