Left to right: Glenn Carter, president of the museum advisory board;
Cowan and his wife, Lois; and Darwin Braund, museum volunteer curator.

Robert Cowan, professor emeritus of animal nutrition, received the first Volunteer Recognition Award from the Pasto Agricultural Museum in June 2001. In 1998, Cowan donated a rare, 1905 stationary hay press to the museum. Powered by horses or mules, the machine was used by Cowan's father to bale loose hay into rectangular blocks weighing roughly 100 pounds. Cowan, his three sons, two daughters and eleven grandchildren demonstrated the press during Ag Progress Days in 2000 using their own mule.
(Note: Reprinted from the July 2001 issue of Ag Sciences 2001: A Monthly Newsletter for the College of Agricultural Sciences.

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