Item is the prize list for the Annapolis County Exhibition to be held under the auspices of the Annapolis County Farmers' Association. Includes the tentative program for the exhibition to be held September 19-21, 1944.
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.
Item is The open hand : an epic poem dealing with the early settlement of Maine and New Brunswick, founded on tradition by W. D. Kearney. First printed in 1864 at Presque Isle, Me. by W.S. Gilman, reprinted at Hartland, N.B. by Fred H. Stevens in 1920 and Observer Ltd. in 1926, this volume was reprinted in 1981 by Carle A. Rigby and Roderick Cummings, Hartland, New Brunswick.
File contains two issues of Agriculture and rural life : documenting change. One subtitled "Perspectives on the issues" (2001) and the other "Project report" (2001). Published by Minnesota State Historical Records Advisory Board and the North Dakota State Historical Records Advisory Board. Funding provided by the United States National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
File contains a 1944 revised edition of the Canadian Veterans land act and six issues of the Canadian Legion Educational Services publication series. The text on the back of the series instructs students enrolled in courses to carry their textbooks with them while traveling overseas. Upon arrival at their new stations, they were encouraged to promptly connect with the Education Officer or Naval Schoolmaster. They were intended to travel with soldiers during the peak of World War II. They provide powerful insight into the hopes and dreams these students had for their futures.
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.
Item is a document titled: Proposals and plans for the establishment of a British community settlement near Amherst in the Province of Nova Scotia in accordance with the "Hornby Plan". It is undated and gives no authoring body. It was created after the 1931 census was made available. It contains two maps, and has sections describing NS geography, climate, education, cities and towns, roads, communications, agricultural development, farmers' organizations, women's institutes, and several descriptions of farms from representatives of the district.
Item is a report titled Insect pests of red clover by Marie Thorne, Summer assistant, Soils and Crops Branch [Ottawa Research Station, Agriculture Canada], August 1980. The report covers the geographic area of Northern Ontario.
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 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.
Item is the prize list for the Annapolis County Exhibition to be held under the auspices of the Annapolis County Farmers' Association. Includes the tentative program for the exhibition to be held September 15-18, 1936.
