Archives Catalogue

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

Methods of analysis (advisory soil samples)

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 13
File
Feb.27, 1953

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 textual record

Minutes of proceedings and evidence (No. 25)

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.

Graduation exercises booklet

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 12, Item 1
Item
May 7, 1969

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a booklet, with the inside front cover honoring Dr. Melville Cumming.

Select financial records from 1958 of Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 11
File
1958

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

File contains 12 bank statements from the Royal Bank of Canada to Melville Cumming in July and August of 1958.

Farm course notes

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 11
File
[19-]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains records, which include bank notes and handwritten notes written by or concerning Dr. Melville Cumming.

Letter from Keiler Mackay

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 10, Item 2
Item
May 25, 1960

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item contains a letter to Dr. Melville Cumming from Keiler Mackay, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario written in May 25th, 1960. It writes about John Macrae’s role in WWI as Gunner of the Canadian Field Artillery and as a Medical Doctor in the Canadian Medical Unit. Attached to the is a newspaper clipping of Macrae’s poem “In Flanders Field"

Reference letter from F. L. Fuller

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
October 10, 1900

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains a reference letter from Dr. Melville Cumming's past employer, F.l. Fuller, who was then Superintendent of Farm & Provincial Agricultural Farms.

Letters concerning Dr. Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 10
File
1900-1909

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains a 2 letters, a reference letter and a general correspondence.

Nova Scotia Agriculture problem [article] / Melville Cumming, for the Chronicle [Herald], New Years, 1927

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folders 41 & 42
Item
1927

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Why cannot Nova Scotia farmers produce more home grown feeds?

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 57
File
[19-]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains Part I of a two-part textual record

Table sheet

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 56, Item 4
Item
1924

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a table sheet for "The Value of Field and Orchard Crops in Nova Scotia in 1924"

Agriculture in Nova Scotia in 1924

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 56, Item 3
Item
1924

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a manuscript

Covering letter from M. Cumming to The Family Herald and Weekly Star

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 56, Item 2
Item
Dec.18, 1924

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a letter from Dr. M Cumming

The value of field and orchard crops in Nova Scotia 1924

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 56, Item 1
Item
1924

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a article

The value of field and orchard crops in Nova Scotia 1924

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 56
File
1924

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

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.

Letter from M. Cumming to Chronicle with postscript and table

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 55, Item 5
Item
Dec.22, 1923

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a letter from Dr. Melville Cummings

Letter from M. Cumming to Chronicle enclosing the manuscript

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 55, Item 4
Item
Dec. 10, 1923

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a letter from Dr. Melville Cummings

Table of agricultural production

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 55, Item 3
Item
1923

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a production table for the article Value Field and Orchard Crops Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia agriculture in 1923

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 55, Item 2
Item
1923

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is an article for the Herald & Chronicle

The value of field and orchard crops in Nova Scotia 1923

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 55, Item 1
Item
1923

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a manuscript for The Value of Field and Orchard Crops in Nova Scotia.

The value of field and orchard crops in Nova Scotia 1923

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 55
File
1923

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

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.

Tribute to Dr. W.H. Britain at the Banquet tendered him by the N.S.F.G.A. at Kentville (1926)