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Meeting minutes of proceedings and evidence (No. 25) of the special committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the agricultural conditions throughout Canada

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 12, Item 2
Item
Wednesday, April 11, 1923

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

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.

Soil analysis and its interpretation - manuscript

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 14
File
[19-]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 4 handwritten drafts of a manuscript, regarding methods for determining available nutrients in the soil, written by Melville Cumming.

Certificate for life member induction from the Agricultural Institute of Canada

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 15, Item 1
Item
1947

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Letter on mineral content in Ontario soils

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 15, Item 2
Item
February 25, 1954

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a letter addressed to Dr. Cumming from W.L Hutcheon of the Ontario College of Agriculture, dated February 25, 1954.

Letter regarding soil surveys

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 16, Item 1
Item
October 28, 1954

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a letter addressed to Dr. Cumming from W.L. Hutcheon of the Saskatchewan College of Agriculture, dated October 28, 1954.

Subject for debate

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 16, Item 3
Item
[19-]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Student term paper on Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
April 1, 1970

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is term paper written by Miss E. Leard regarding Dr. Melville Cumming

Letter from Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 17, Item 2
Item
December 20, 1954

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a 2 page letter from the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing to Dr. Melville Cumming.

Institutional certification

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 18
File
1942-1957

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 2 certificates awarded to Dr. Cumming

Certification as elected a fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 18, Item 1
Item
1942

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Certificate of honorary membership by The Nova Scotia Institute of Aerologist

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 18, Item 2
Item
1957

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Agriculture notes

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 19
File
[19-]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 4 individually unrelated papers, 3 of which are titled “Livestock”, “Crop Production”, and "Farm and Crop Areas and Number of Farms.”

Newspaper clippings

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 22
File
1931-1969

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 2 textual records, consisting of newspaper clippings

Deco’s obligation

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 22, Item 1
Item
April 17, 1969

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a newspaper clipping

Professor Rasmussen discusses economic of changing price

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 22, Item 2
Item
Oct. 3, 1931

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a newspaper clipping from The Packer

Tributes to Dr. Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 23
File
[ca.1969]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 3 textual records, consisting of booklets that tribute to Dr. Melville Cumming

Tribute to Dr. Melville Cumming House of Assembly, Halifax, N. S.

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 23, Item 1
Item
April 17, 1969

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is 2 copies of an address by The Honorable Harvey A. Veniot, Minister of Agriculture & Marketing.

Citations

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 23, Item 2
Item
October 31, 1969

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a report regarding the second group of photographs to be hung in the Agricultural Hall of Fame Atlantic Winter Fair in Halifax, N.S.

Chapter 1-6

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 25
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Certificate of Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 128, Folder 4
Item
December 1, 1947

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Chapter 7-12

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 1
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Chapter 13-17

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 2
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Chapter 18-21

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 3
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Chapter 1-6

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 4
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Chapter 7-11

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 5
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Chapter 12-15

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 6
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Reproduction of a newspaper article "Agriculture in Nova Scotia" by M. Cumming from the Maritime Merchant in 1924

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 132, Folder 14
Item
1924

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

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.

Melville Cumming articles

MS-14-1, OVR Box 1, Folder 11
File
1919-1926

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

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.

Cumming article on the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture

MS-14-1, MS-14 OVR Box 1, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
[192?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is an article written by Melville Cumming on the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture prepared for the Premier.

Cumming article for MacDonald College Magazine

MS-14-1, MS-14 OVR Box 1, Folder 11, Item 2
Item
1919

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is an article prepared for MacDonald College Magazine August 1919 by Melville Cumming.

Melville Cumming articles

MS-14-1, OVR Box 2, Folder 18
File
1911 & 1927

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

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".

Melville Cumming article "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College"

MS-14-1, MS-14 OVR Box 2, Folder 18, Item 1
Item
1927

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is an article written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming for "The Herald" entitled "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College" from 1927.

Melville Cumming article "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, N.S."

MS-14-1, MS-14 OVR Box 2, Folder 18, Item 2
Item
1927

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is an article written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming for MacDonald College Magazine entitled "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, N.S.", from May 1911.

Photograph of Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, PB Box 1, Folder 39
Item
1905-1927

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is a photograph of Melville Cumming, first principal of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Lieutenant Governor D.C. Fraser addressing a group of farmers and their families at the Agricultural College, Truro, N.S.

MS-14-1, PB Box 9, Folder 4, Item 1
Item
[19-]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Cumming in group photo

MS-14-1, PB Box 9, Folder 4, Item 10
Item
[1876?]-[1969?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is a black and white of Dr. Cumming with a priest and 3 other individuals, potentially on the steps of Cumming Hall. Photo was taken by Slaunwhite.

Cumming in Miami, Florida

MS-14-1, PB Box 9, Folder 4, Item 5
Item
[19-]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is a black and white of photograph of Melville Cumming.

Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, PB Box 9, Folder 4, Item 6
Item
[19-]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is a black and white photograph of Melville Cumming taken by Sponagle, Truro, NS.

John Edward Shuh fonds

MS-14-10
Fonds
1940-1989

Fonds consists of pamphlets, books and theses about grass and pastures, as well as records and teaching notes associated with a history of agriculture class taught by John Edward Shuh at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in the early 1970s.

Shuh, John Edward

Making and feeding grass and legume silage in Nova Scotia / J. E. Shuh

MS-14-10, Box 5, Folder 21, Item 1
Item
1949

Part of John Edward Shuh fonds

Development of agricultural machinery / [teaching notes by J.E. Shuh]

MS-14-10, MS-14, Box 135, Folder 13
Item
[1970-1979]

Part of John Edward Shuh fonds

Item is “Development of Agricultural Machinery”. They are likely teaching notes by J.E. Shuh, made in the 1970s. Potentially part of the History of Agriculture class taught by Shuh in the 1970’s.

The pasture problem in Nova Scotia / by John Edward Shuh

MS-14-10, MS-14, Box 135, Folder 25
Item
September 13,1961

Part of John Edward Shuh fonds

Item is 'The pasture problem in Nova Scotia', Shuh was director of Field Crop Services ; Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing.

History of agriculture AG150 teaching notes / John Edward Shuh

MS-14-10, MS-14, Box 135, Folder 28
Item
[1970-1979]

Part of John Edward Shuh fonds

Item is notes and plastic overheads associated with the class History of Agriculture taught by John Edward Shuh at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in the early 1970's.

Nova Scotia Poultry Association fonds

MS-14-11
Fonds
1913-1938

Fonds consists of the constitution, by-laws, and the minutes of the annual meetings for the Nova Scotia Poultry Association from 1913-1938.

Nova Scotia Poultry Association

C.A. Douglas retirement photographs

MS-14-116, PB Box 40, Folder 3
File
[1960-197-?]

File contains 7 photographs of C.A. Douglas' retirement. They are all stamped "Photo by Pridham Studio, Truro, N.S.". Charles Douglas was Deputy Minister of the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing. Douglas also served as Assistant Agricultural Representative in Pictou, Agricultural Representative in Hants County, Assistant Director and, later, Director of Extension, and as Director of Livestock. Was inducted into the Agricultural Hall of Fame in 1979. https://www.dal.ca/diff/aahf/inductees/charles-douglas.html

Photograph album of Ed Munroe and students in the early 1940s on campus at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

MS-14-117, PB Box 40, Folder 11
File
1940-1941

File contains a photograph album of photographs taken at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College taken and collected by the donor Ed Munroe, [NSAC] class of 1941. There are 34 b&w photographs of student life on the NSAC campus, there are also and invitations to the 1940 and 1941 NSAC graduation dances.

Nova Scotia Veterinary Medical Association Ladies auxiliary scrapbooks

MS-14-118, Box 144, Folders 3 & 4
File
1952-1984

File contains two scrapbooks, or memory books, created to reflect the activities of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Nova Scotia Veterinary Medical Association from 1952 to 1984. The auxiliary dismantled in the mid 1980s; former member Joan MacAulay created these scrap books in May of 2014 to acknowledge the work and friendship auxiliary members had.

Harry Brown fonds

MS-14-119
Fonds
1949-1963

Fonds contains records created and collected by Harry Brown related to sheep in Nova Scotia and Canada. There are two series', one in the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers Limited, and the second includes records related to the exhibition and breeding of sheep, and Nova Scotia Sheep Breeders Association records. Records are meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, and memorandums.

William Sullivan fonds

MS-14-12
Fonds
1925-1929

Fonds contains pamphlets on alfalfa farming, correspondence to William Sullivan, and information about jersey cattle from Woodview Farms, Grayburn Farms, Elm Hill Farm, and Maxwelton Farm.

George C. Retson fonds

MS-14-13
Fonds
1948-[1976]

Fonds consists of reports and publications, most written by George Retson, related to the economics of farming in Canada. Topics include strawberries, apples, dairy, milk, hogs, poultry, livestock production, and others, across mainly Atlantic Canada between 1948-1976.

Retson, George Clifford

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