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Experimental Farm System Perpetual Calendar / Canada. Department of Agriculture [poster]

Item is a poster titled Experimental Farm System Perpetual Calendar / Canada. Department of Agriculture. There is a dial that can be manually turned to reveal the "twelve months in the poultry yard" advice offered month by month. The Hon. Martin Burrell, Minister of Agriculture (1911 to 1917, and from 1917 to 1919) and J.H. Grisdale, Director. Undated.

New Brunswick fruit salesman's catalogue

Item is a travelling fruit salesman's catalog used for showing the varieties offered by a nursery. Contents : Sussex Nursery, Kings County, New Brunswick. Lithographer : J. W. Thompson and Co, Rochester New York. ca.1876-1891.
Nurserymen's coloured plates were produced by J. W. Thompson and Co. of Rochester, New York. J. W. Thompson and Co. operated by John Wrigley Thompson (b. 1826 England ; d. 1900 New York) between 1876 and 1891.
For more information: http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2397 University of Rochester Library Bulletin: Volume XXXV • 1982 Nineteenth-Century Rochester Fruit and Flower Plates* --KARL SANFORD KABELAC

International Harvester Lines almanac and encylopedia

Item is a 1913 International Harvester Company (IHC) almanac and encyclopedia (International Harvester Lines). The first edition of this almanac was issued in 1908. The almanac focuses on the practical side of farm and country life. It features tables of useful information and authoritative articles of an educational character, as well as astronomical data and calculations which formed such a noteworthy part of all earlier Almanacs. Included is a list of International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated) Canadian Branch Houses with the only Atlantic location being St. John, N.B. Includes illustrations.

Farming in Canada / Canada. Department of Agriculture

Item is Publication (Canada. Department of Agriculture), 1296. Revised.
This publication is a general review of farming in Canada. It outlines the physical and social conditions under which farming is carried out, the various types of production found from coast to coast, the means by which farm products reach the consumer, and the steps taken by the federal government to assist the farmer and safeguard the nation's food supply.
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