Item is a double sided sketch of surveys. One side of the page has on the right, in ink, a sketch of Truro Market Property, surveyed for John A. McKenzie & Sons, June 3, 1905. Scale 1: 20 chains. The McKenzie house and Market are on Havelock street and Prince Street. Also shown are edging adjacent properties Allan Loughead and G.O. Fulton on Inglis Street. There is a blank space in the middle of the page and on the left is depicted Beaver Dam Brook passing through the properties of James Hennigar, Henry Miller, McLearn, Patterson, McCulloch, and nearby Dodds, Underwood, Robert Barr and Scott, and Russel Brook. There are pencil annotations as well. The other side shows sketched in ink the property of T.G. McMullen, Prince Street East, Truro, Nova Scotia. The ink notation says "known as the Craig Hat Factory. September 11, 1906. By J.K. Eaton, D.C.L.S. Scale 1":30'". Shows Prince Street crossing Munroe Street, along Brook to W. Archibald's line, the properties of Estate Samuel Rettie, Alvin Fulmore's lot. In pencil: "Sketch of same surveys made at Debert Station, for Charles [McElmon?] January 12, 1906, this sketch made May 30th, 1906.
Item is a booklet published by the N.S. Department of Agriculture, it is the address by Melville Cumming, then Secretary of Agriculture, before the Halifax Canadian Club on Dec. 4, 1908.
Item is a notebook with entries dating from 1903-1908 detailing the number of eggs laid and/or for what they were sold, as well as observations about hens. It was possibly kept by a woman in Sheffield, New Brunswick.
Item is a sketch of the properties lying on the North side of the Intervale Road near I.R.C. Railway crossing known as the Allan Loughead field [Truro, Nova Scotia]. Surveyed for the Hon. W.F. McCurdy, of Baddeck, Cape Breton. Truro, N.S. June 27, 1911 [by] J.K. Eaton, D.C.L. Surveyor. Scale 1":30'. Also shown are the property of Gov. Experimental Farm, Queen Street East or Intervale Road, the center of Logan's Gully, and the proposed new street. Adjacent properties are Miller, Mrs. Maud Work, Mrs. Adelaide Nowlin, and Wm.E. Logan. There is a handwritten note in pencil under the Surveyors label.
Item is correspondence from the Office of the Commissioner for Works and Mines Nova Scotia (E. H. Armstrong) to Melville Cumming, dated 5 November, 1913. It references an enclosed contract (two copies) for signature by W.K. Murray - contractor, in regards to the construction of the headhouse to the greenhouse.
Item is Set No.4 of the building / architectural plans for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College Head House (greenhouse) building architectural plans, October 1, 1913. Job No. B.19 by Andrew R. Cobb - Arch - Halifax. 5 sheets. Handwritten in ink in the upper left corner on sheet no. 1: "Please refer to the awarded contract dated November 5th, 1913 [sp] W.K. Murray?
Item is correspondence to Melville Cumming from Murray (contractor) regarding their offer to build the headhouse, dated November 4, 1913. Attached is a document prepared by M. Cumming entitled "Changes in Specifications for Headhouse to Greenhouse for Agricultural College".
Item is an article that includes a cover letter dated December 1, 1913, from F.W. Patterson (Director's Assistant, Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa) returning copy of original article.
Item is a photograph of the Bible Hill School Garden in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia. The Bible Hill School was located on College Road in Bible Hill where the woodsman lot is located on the campus of the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus, formerly the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The photograph is dated August 6, 1914. Initials "K.B.". Men, women and children working in the garden with hand tools, school featured in the background. Notation on the reverse of the photograph "Bible Hill School Garden. Truro NS. Aug 6. 1914."
