File contains select reports from the Nova Scotia Voluntary Economic Planning, agriculture sector meeting held December 11, [1962], at the NSAC, Truro. Highlights of the agenda : - The philosophy and method of planning - Chairman, Hon. E.D. Haliburton; - The introduction of planning for the Nova Scotia economy - Premier R.L. Stanfield; - The purpose and methods of economic planning - Hon. G.I. Smith; - Potential markets in industrial planning - Hon. E.A. Mason; - The effect of economic planning on the general economy - Prof. W.Y. Smith; - The effect of economic planning on agricultural development in European countries - F.W. Walsh; - Symposium - discussing trends in agriculture and the significance of economic planning to agriculture; - Organizing the Agricultural sector for planning - Chairman S.E. Lewis; - Organization of commodity work groups; - Assembling of work groups: dairy, general livestock, horticultural, field crops, and poultry
File contains further reports from the Nova Scotia Voluntary Economic Planning, agriculture sector meeting held December 11, [1962], at the NSAC, Truro. Highlights of the agenda : - The philosophy and method of planning - Chairman, Hon. E.D. Haliburton; - The introduction of planning for the Nova Scotia economy - Premier R.L. Stanfield; - The purpose and methods of economic planning - Hon. G.I. Smith; - Potential markets in industrial planning - Hon. E.A. Mason; - The effect of economic planning on the general economy - Prof. W.Y. Smith; - The effect of economic planning on agricultural development in European countries - F.W. Walsh; - Symposium - discussing trends in agriculture and the significance of economic planning to agriculture; - Organizing the Agricultural sector for planning - Chairman S.E. Lewis; - Organization of commodity work groups; - Assembling of work groups: dairy, general livestock, horticultural, field crops, and poultry
File contains two volumes related to agriculture. 1. Catalogue of trotting stock belonging to A.J. Alexander, Woodburn Farm, Spring Station, Woodford County Kentucky. 1885. - first five pages have dried water stains. 2. An album of first prize winners in classes and groups, international [shorthorn cattle] / American Short-horn Breeders' Association. 1914.
File contains five volumes related to agriculture. Titles include: 1. A reproduction of "A catalogue of the whole of the live and dead farming stock comprising 13 young and active cart horses.... steam engine.... also part of the household furniture.... which will be sold by Messr. W. Brown & Co. on Tuesday and Thursday September 28th and 30th, 1880... by direction of the trustees of the late Mr. Lasenby, who are giving up the Farm at Michaelmas. No. 1078. At head of cover "Charteridge, Chesham" 2. Herb garden : seeds for your herb garden / by Beatrice A. Clark. With authoritative books on herbs, a bifold cardstock with seed samples. Published by the Cypress Press ca. 1937. 3. Rothamsted Experimental Station : guide to the experimental farm -- Lawes Agricultural Trust. 1947. 4. Genetics of some new type foxes / C.K. Gunn. 1945. Publication / Dominion of Canada, Dept. of Agriculture ; no. 768. Technical bulletin / Dominion of Canada, Dept. of Agriculture ; no. 53. 5. Flax / William Saunders, Canada Department of Agriculture. 1896. Original issued in series: Bulletin / Dept. of Agriculture, Central Experimental Farm ; no. 25.
File contains four volumes related to agriculture. Titles include "The Catalogue of Albert H. Merrill [1912] of Danvers, Massachusetts (horse - pacers and trotters)", "Seaweed as a Fertilizer" by L.C. Harlow, "Report of a visit to Great Britain and the continent of Europe in the winter of 1897-98" by Duncan McEachran, published by the authority of the Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa, August 1898, and Campineology : the story of the living egg machines / by J. Fred N. Kennedy [1914] related to campine chickens.
File contains three Nova Scotia government documents and reports related to agriculture between 1898 and 1930. Titles include "Game Laws, Nova Scotia 1919", "Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturalists List of Members 1930", and "Nova Scotia : its agricultural resources" by B. W. Chipman, Secretary for Agriculture, 1898.
File contains "A brief to the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission" by the New Brunswick Institute of Agrologists, March 15, 1977. Also included is a copy of a "Brief to the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission" presented by Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists, April 15, 1977, Halifax, N.S. Both reports support the development of the four year degree program at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, and even that the institute operate separate from the N.S. Department of Agriculture.
File contains the guide notes for the 12 part radio broadcasting series "Co-operative Series." Topics include the importance of co-operation of those involved in the farming industry, including farmers, producers, and consumers.
File contains the guide notes for the 6 part radio broadcasting series "Co-operative Series." Topics of this series revolves around the importance of co-operation of those involved in the farming industry, which farmers, producers, and consumers.
File contains the guide notes for a 10 part radio broadcasting series called "Farm Planning Series." Topics of this radio series include farming types, enterprises, management, economics, etc., broadcast in 1941.
File contains a report created by Jean Pell for her CBC radio drama on everyday farm life entitled “The Gillans of Sunnybrae Farm” in the 1950’s and 1960’s. It also contains "Role of CBC in Agricultural Extension", by J.D. Johnson ; a draft copy of a script for the performance of: “The Gillans of Sunnybrae Farm: An informal History of Maritime Agriculture” written by Jackie Yarn [1994?].
File contains the article Dairy Production in Lunenburg County, written for the Bridgewater Bulletin, October 6, 1925. Also included is the article, ''Nova Scotia's Agriculture" for the Financial Times, March 1926.
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.
File contains two articles written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming, one from May 1911 published in MacDonald College Magazine, "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, N.S.", and one from 1927 for "The Herald" entitled "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College".
File contains 6 photographs of miscellaneous sheep on display, including a Leicester, lambs and ewes, and reprints of paintings of a Hampshire ram and a Columbia ram.
File contains 4 volumes of the proceedings of the Sheep Symposium in Alberta, by the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Alberta between 1969-1973.
