Item is the Rural policy forum report : Rural Communities Impacting Policy. A community - university research alliance. February 26-28, 2004, prepared by Todd Barr and Malcolm Shookner, Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre at Dalhousie University. Prepared for: Rural Communities Impacting Policy Project, June 2004. There are several other documents in the file, including the agenda and notes for Rural Communities Impacting Policy meeting to discuss Core funding for community development project and community development research findings.
Item is a summary of carrot production techniques and technologies to enhance yield and quality. The summary details varietal evaluation, resource optimization, maturity and quality modelling, and pest and disease forecasting.
Item is a copy of Nova Scotia Agricultural College yells. Class yell 1915 ; college yell 1915 ; college yell 2005; an early yell ; a recent yell ; hockey yell c. 1950 ; centennial yell c. 2005.
Item is a reproduction of the article The third housecall / Alexander Crowe from Canadian Family Physician regarding the health of Nova Scotia Agricultural College graduate and professor Dr. A.E. Roland. Note: referred to as "professor" in article; thesis and other publications named, but Roland not named. Handwritten note in corner: "Family have given permission to say who the patient was".
Item is 'The effect of phosphatic fertilizers on summer fallow wheat crops in certain areas of Saskatchewan' by J. Mitchell of the University of Saskatchewan.
Item is a reproduction of the article "Sanger recognizes obscure poetic figure" from the Halifax Herald Limited by Bruce Erskine, July 3 2005. The article discusses a new book by retired Nova Scotia Agricultural College professor and archivist Peter Sanger. White Salt Mountain is a detailed account of the life of Florence Ayscough, the daughter of a Nova Scotia-born businessman Thomas Wheelock who made his fortune in Shanghai where Ayscough was born in 1875. The book then links her life with that of late New Brunswick poet John Thompson (1936-1976) who’s poems, Sanger argues, were greatly influenced by Ayscough’s translated poems from Chinese.
Item is an article about Nova Scotia Agricultural College alumna Fiona Nettleton (Class of ’86) who became a shearer in New Zealand and helped build a company who makes merino wool thermal underwear. Item was accessed 9 January, 2007.
Item is a reproduction of Cape Breton and the Western Harvest Excursions 1890-1928 / A.A. MacKenzie, from "Cape Breton at 200: Historical Essays in Honor of the Island’s Bicentennial 1785 – 1985", pages 71-83. Published by University College of Cape Breton Press, Sydney, N.S. Original dated April 10, 1851, Fredericton, N.B.
Item is a reproduction of a photograph of the original building on the property of the Provincial Farm/School of Agriculture which burned down in 1898. This became the site of the Nova Scotia College of Agriculture, Harlow Institute is now on site. There is an octagonal swine barn that was built by students 1891 and was removed before 1913.