Collection contains "Sheep have an important place in Nova Scotia Agriculture. Leaflet No. 9" and transcripts from broadcast #20 and #21 of "The Vanishing Flock". Also included are a variety of agricultural reports.
File contains a set of completed 'Agricultural values and wages' from James R. MacKenzie, crop correspondent from 1928-1934 for the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Statistics were gathered from Little Harbor, Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
Fonds contains agricultural records, government documents, reports and photographs that were created by, or belonged to, George MacKenzie. Subjects include agriculture, crops, the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, and the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture.
File includes photographs of people and buildings from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, the 1975 NSAC autumn assembly, and 1976-1979 Young Farmers Conference featuring young farmers who were NSAC graduates.
Fonds consists of records that were collected by Walter V. Grant. They include a report on farming in Canada in 1949 and a series comprised of reports from the 1963 Nova Scotia Voluntary Economic Planning, Forestry Sector meetings.
File contains select reports from the Nova Scotia Voluntary Economic Planning, agriculture sector meeting held December 11, [1962], at the NSAC, Truro. Highlights of the agenda : - The philosophy and method of planning - Chairman, Hon. E.D. Haliburton; - The introduction of planning for the Nova Scotia economy - Premier R.L. Stanfield; - The purpose and methods of economic planning - Hon. G.I. Smith; - Potential markets in industrial planning - Hon. E.A. Mason; - The effect of economic planning on the general economy - Prof. W.Y. Smith; - The effect of economic planning on agricultural development in European countries - F.W. Walsh; - Symposium - discussing trends in agriculture and the significance of economic planning to agriculture; - Organizing the Agricultural sector for planning - Chairman S.E. Lewis; - Organization of commodity work groups; - Assembling of work groups: dairy, general livestock, horticultural, field crops, and poultry
File contains further reports from the Nova Scotia Voluntary Economic Planning, agriculture sector meeting held December 11, [1962], at the NSAC, Truro. Highlights of the agenda : - The philosophy and method of planning - Chairman, Hon. E.D. Haliburton; - The introduction of planning for the Nova Scotia economy - Premier R.L. Stanfield; - The purpose and methods of economic planning - Hon. G.I. Smith; - Potential markets in industrial planning - Hon. E.A. Mason; - The effect of economic planning on the general economy - Prof. W.Y. Smith; - The effect of economic planning on agricultural development in European countries - F.W. Walsh; - Symposium - discussing trends in agriculture and the significance of economic planning to agriculture; - Organizing the Agricultural sector for planning - Chairman S.E. Lewis; - Organization of commodity work groups; - Assembling of work groups: dairy, general livestock, horticultural, field crops, and poultry
Series contains reports from the Nova Scotia Voluntary Economic Planning meetings, including forestry, agriculture, and secondary manufacturing sectors.
Fonds consists of one invoice and a book containing two pages of notes about agriculture written by Kenneth Cox. Also included is a text on live stock judging from 1917.
Series consists of government reports and publications relating to agricultural issues, pastures, livestock, crops, dairy, etc., along with resources for active military service members and veterans, selective statistics and acts and regulations published between 1880-2006.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
File contains "A brief to the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission" by the New Brunswick Institute of Agrologists, March 15, 1977. Also included is a copy of a "Brief to the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission" presented by Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists, April 15, 1977, Halifax, N.S. Both reports support the development of the four year degree program at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, and even that the institute operate separate from the N.S. Department of Agriculture.
