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1955 first year degree class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 11
File
1955

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a black and white photograph of the 1955 first year degree class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 30 students and people (29 men and 1 woman), mainly wearing double-breasted suits on the steps of a building at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Richard Morton fonds

MS-14-36
Fonds
1955 - 2011

Fonds is comprised of Richard (Dick) Morton’s Nova Scotia Agricultural College certificates; photographs (including the NSAC 1952 graduating class photo); a copy of The 50th anniversary of 4-H in Nova Scotia; newspaper clippings; a certificate of recognition and appreciation on Richard Morton’s retirement; Mr. Morton’s obituary; notes of condolence; two personal accounts from friends/colleagues, including Memories of Dick Morton, by Robert Murray, Class of 1952; and an untitled and anonymous poem dated 1978.

Morton, Richard

1954 first year farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 12
File
1954

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a black and white photo of the 1954 farm class. Thirteen men are posed in three rows looking at the camera.

Letter on mineral content in Ontario soils

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 15, Item 2
Item
February 25, 1954

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a letter addressed to Dr. Cumming from W.L Hutcheon of the Ontario College of Agriculture, dated February 25, 1954.

Letter regarding soil surveys

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 16, Item 1
Item
October 28, 1954

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a letter addressed to Dr. Cumming from W.L. Hutcheon of the Saskatchewan College of Agriculture, dated October 28, 1954.

Chapter 13-17

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 2
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Chapter 1-6

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 4
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Chapter 16-18

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 132, Folder 1
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Agriculture in Nova Scotia (revised copy 1952)

MS-14-1, Box 126, Folder 8, Item 1
File
1952

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains a hand written notes of Agriculture in Nova Scotia by Dr. Melville Cumming.

Chapter 1-6

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 25
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Chapter 7-11

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 5
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Chapter 19-20

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 132, Folder 2
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Agriculture in Nova Scotia [manuscript]

Subseries
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Subseries contains chapters of the revised 1952 manuscript, "Agriculture in Nova Scotia," written by Melville Cumming.

Chapter 12-15

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 6
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia Veterinary Medical Association Ladies auxiliary scrapbooks

MS-14-118, MS-14 Box 144, Folders 3 & 4
File
1952-1984

File contains two scrapbooks, or memory books, created to reflect the activities of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Nova Scotia Veterinary Medical Association from 1952 to 1984. The auxiliary dismantled in the mid 1980s; former member Joan MacAulay created these scrap books in May of 2014 to acknowledge the work and friendship auxiliary members had.

Chapter 7-12

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 1
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Chapter 18-21

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 131, Folder 3
File
[after 1952]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 1 manuscript of the 1952 revised copy of Agriculture in Nova Scotia.

1951 farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 2, Folder 40, Item 1
Item
1951

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1951 farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 2, Folder 40, Item 2
Item
1951

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1951 advanced farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 2, Folder 40, Item 3
Item
1951

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1951? class A of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 1
Item
[1951?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of the 1951? class A of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 12 men in 2 rows facing camera smiling, the front row is seated.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College E.S. Archibald Testimonial Scholarship 1950 correspondence and receipt

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 1
File
1950

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Fertility and productiveness of Nova Scotia soils

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 128, Folder 5
File
1950

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains a 15 page manuscript by Melville Cumming

Making and feeding grass and legume silage in Nova Scotia / J. E. Shuh

MS-14-10, MS-14, Box 5, Folder 21, Item 1
Item
1949

Part of John Edward Shuh fonds

Item is Publication 1005 of the Department of Agriculture and Marketing, Halifax, N.S.

Walter V. Grant fonds

MS-14-131
Fonds
1949-1963

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.

1948-1949 farm classes at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 14, Items 1-4
File
1948-1949

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains Nova Scotia Agricultural College farm class photos from 1948-1949. Photo taken outside of a wooden shingled building with pane windows. Photos have been cut and reattached as composites originally. Staples have been removed for preservation.

George C Retson fonds

MS-14-13
Fonds
1948-[1976]

Fonds consists of reports and publications, most written by George Retson, related to the economics of farming in Canada. Topics include strawberries, apples, dairy, milk, hogs, poultry, livestock production, and others, across mainly Atlantic Canada between 1948-1976.

Retson, George Clifford

1948-1949 farm classes at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 2, Folder 41, Items 1-2
File
1948-1949

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains Nova Scotia Agricultural College farm class photos from 1948-1949. Photo taken outside of a wooden shingled building with pane windows. Photos have been cut and reattached as composites originally. Staples have been removed for preservation.

1947 advanced farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 18, Folder 1
File
1947

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a b&w photograph of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College advanced farm class in 1947.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph of the flowerbeds near the original science building before 1946

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 1, Item 2
Item
[before 1946]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Cumming's research papers

Subseries
1946-1956

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Subseries contains reports and books that relate to the field of research of Dr. Melville Cumming, mainly agriculture.

Lieutenant Colonel A. (Arthur) W. MacKenzie fonds

MS-14-40
Fonds
1946-1969

Fonds contains a transcript of the 1969 interview with Jack Hawkins and Lieutenant Colonel A. (Arthur) W. MacKenzie, former Minister of Agriculture for Nova Scotia and a photograph of MacKenzie from 1946.

MacKenzie, Arthur Whittier

Photograph of the view over Truro from campus featuring homes and farmland in 1946

UA-43, PB Box 21, Folder 1, Item 2
Item
1946

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Text of valedictory by Keith Russell for the May 1946 graduation commencement ceremony held at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 16
File
May, 1946

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Poultry plucking machine patent

MS-14-43, MS-14, Box 134, Folder 3
File
1944

File contains a poultry plucking machine patent that was issued on July 4th, 1944 to Angus Edward Banting, Truro, NS. Banting signed all his rights, title and interest of the invention over to the Department of Agriculture and Marketing of the Province of Nova Scotia.

Banting, Angus

Meeting minutes, memorandums, and various records related to agricultural education

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1942-1944

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of short horn field day, [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] June 26, 1942

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 20
Item
June 26, 1942

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of two short horns on short horn field day, [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] June 26, 1942.

No.4 - What is the output per man in farming? / by J.E. Lattimer

MS-14-4, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 17, Item 4
Item
1941

Part of Canadian Farm Problems - radio broadcast guide notes collection

Item is radio report of the "Farm Planning Series," that focuses on the factors that contribute to Canadian farm production, such as crop varieties, livestock breeds, transportation and refrigeration, specialization, and mechanization.

No.6 - Increasing returns / by J.E. Lattimer

MS-14-4, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 17, Item 6
Item
1941

Part of Canadian Farm Problems - radio broadcast guide notes collection

Item is radio report of the "Farm Planning Series," that focuses on whether farmers can adapt to new opportunities from changing consumer diets, interference with trade, and shifts in markets.

No.2 - What is a desirable combination of enterprises on the farm? by J.E. Lattimer

MS-14-4, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 17, Item 2
Item
1941

Part of Canadian Farm Problems - radio broadcast guide notes collection

Item is radio report focused on the differences between enterprises that are competitive vs those that are supplementary to farming.

No.7 - Record of prices / by J.E. Lattimer

MS-14-4, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 17, Item 7
Item
1941

Part of Canadian Farm Problems - radio broadcast guide notes collection

Item is radio report of the "Farm Planning Series," that focuses on how specialization farming effects the prices of goods and services of consumers.

No.9 - Farm records and accounts / by J.E. Lattimer

MS-14-4, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 17, Item 9
Item
1941

Part of Canadian Farm Problems - radio broadcast guide notes collection

Item is radio report of the "Farm Planning Series," that focuses on the importance of record keeping of farm operations to budget farm expenditures.

No.5 - Cutting costs / by J.E. Lattimer

MS-14-4, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 17, Item 5
Item
1941

Part of Canadian Farm Problems - radio broadcast guide notes collection

Item is radio report of the "Farm Planning Series," that focuses on the balancing of prices and costs for farmers.

No.8 - Wages / by J.E. Lattimer

MS-14-4, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 17, Item 8
Item
1941

Part of Canadian Farm Problems - radio broadcast guide notes collection

Item is radio report of the "Farm Planning Series," that compares the wage regulation between farming and other industries.

No.3 - Why do some farmers pay while others do not? / by J.E. Lattimer

MS-14-4, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 17, Item 3
Item
1941

Part of Canadian Farm Problems - radio broadcast guide notes collection

Item is radio report of the "Farm Planning Series," that focuses on the enumeration and examination of factors that contribute to the production and income of farmers.

No.10 - The farm program - 1941 / by J.E. Lattimer

MS-14-4, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 17, Item 10
Item
1941

Part of Canadian Farm Problems - radio broadcast guide notes collection

Item is radio report of the "Farm Planning Series," that focuses on the importance of farm program for farm management.

Photograph of ditching machine and two men installing drainage tiles

UA-43, PB Box 21, Folder 1, Item 1
Item
[1940?]-[1949?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus facing south-east, in view are Cumming Hall, the horticulture building, greenhouses, and original barns (where quad/library and Cox building are now)

UA-43, PB Box 21, Folder 1, Item 4
Item
[1940?]-[1949?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

No. 12 - Corn / by L.C. Raymond

MS-14-4, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 19, Item 12
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Canadian Farm Problems - radio broadcast guide notes collection

Item is a broadcast report for the "Crop Production Series".

Photographs of Ayrshire field day [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] in 1948

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 24
File
1940 or 1948

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains two photographs of the Ayrshire field day [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] in 1948, one photograph has inscribed on the back: "Micmac [sp?]" Shubenacadie, [sp?]

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