File includes 2 postcards with a view of Bible Hill and Salmon River, Truro, N.S.. Including the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, one can see the top of Cumming Hall, the water tower, and electric wind mill generator. Presumably sent from NSAC students, post-dated 1912 & 1914, included as well is a reproduction of the postcard. One card was sent from Truro, Sept 13, 1912, from [Marg?] to Miss C. Maude Pines, Waterville, Kings Co. Nova Scotia. The other was sent from Nuttby, Sept 26, 1914 from [Eff?] to Miss Ruth E. Windrow, The Willows, New Ross, Lun [sp.] N.S.
File contains tables of dates of sowing, plowing, and working plans of vegetables plots for the 1915 season on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. Created by James Allan, Superintendent of Horticulture.
File contains 25 exam papers likely taken by Glen Stephen Ells between the junior and senior year (1913-1915) for subjects associated with agriculture at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The exam papers are mostly typed and cover a range of topics from entomology, dairy, animal husbandry, commercial law, mathematics, and English literature. The exams are annotated and scribbled over and appear to mainly belong to one student Glen Stephen Ells. One exam paper in particular shows strategy planning for a hockey game on the reverse of which Ells was a team-member.
Subseries contains records relating to horticulture and landscape architecture of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. Records include the working plan of plots, list of perennials, and tables of dates of sowing, plowing and working in vegetables plots for seasons between 1913-1916.
File contains a photocopy of a 9 June 1916 news item from The Pictou Advocate written by Robert H. MacKay, R. Henry Graham, and Robert M. MacGregor, "The Farmers Candidates," entitled "The Policy of the Government in Respect to AGRICULTURE is Centralized at the Provincial College and Farm at Truro."
Files contain the first, third, sixth, and seventh (1913-1919) annual reports submitted by Peter F. J. Shaw, the superintendent of ground and gardens and horticulturist for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.
Item is a panoramic photographic print of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1921. The view is uphill from the location of the present Animal Science facilities facing College Road (which runs from left to right). On the left can be seen the administration building, built in 1904 and renamed Cumming Hall in 1957 in honour of the College’s 1st Principal. The Dairy Barn and other farm buildings in the center of the picture date from the early 1900’s. The Science Building, built in 1915 and lost in a tragic fire on June 15, 1946, can be seen at the far right.
Item is a photograph of barley grown on the farm of Alex McKay, esq. Lyons Brook, Pictou, Co. 1923. May have belonged to W.A. McKay (dairying) who graduated from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 1914. McKay. Depicted is Barley from a part of a field to which Malagash [Nova Scotia] potash land salt was applied and from a part of the same field with the same treatment except no Malagash potash land salt was applied.
This item is a published report on the meeting minutes of the special committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the agricultural conditions throughout Canada. Among the committee, was Melville Cumming who was attendee and provided evidence as capacity of Secretary of Agriculture.
This file contains 5 textual records, which consists of a research article, along with accompanying work which include newspaper article, research table, and correspondences. These records were written by Dr, Melville Cumming in 1923.
Item is a reproduction of the newspaper article "Agriculture in Nova Scotia", by M. Cumming, Principal of N.S.A.C. The article is from the Maritime Merchant in 1924.
This file contains 4 textual records, which consists of a research article, along with accompanying work which include newspaper article, research table, and a correspondence. These records were written by Dr, Melville Cumming in 1924.
File contains two articles written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming on the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and an article prepared for MacDonald College Magazine.
This file contains 57 pages of handwritten notes by Dr. Melville Cummings with recordings from 1920-1926. These papers consist of notes from faculty meetings from 1920-1924, notes regarding 1925 Farm course, and notes on student;s behavior and performance and progress in debate. Pages of note include one piece of paper defining wealth, and another titled " “T___(?) year debate, Dec 18, 1925” City life vs. country life.
Series contains addresses, articles, and correspondence written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming between about 1905-1927 related to agriculture in Nova Scotia.
