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Item consists of a typescript of an address delivered by Carleton Stanley at a meeting of the Women's Institute in Truro, Nova Scotia, dated November 4, 1931. Includes discussions on agriculture, the machinery industry, and economics.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus photograph taken ca. 1930

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 1, Item 1
Item
1930

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of stallion Captain Aubrey and groomer A. Dwyer

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 16
Item
[1917]-[1929]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a black and white photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College's prized stallion, Captain Aubrey, pictured with A. Dwyer driving a cart attached. From Dale Ells' Shaped through Service : an illustrated history of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, page 95: Captain Aubrey was a bay horse that stood 15.3 hands in height, weighed around 1200 pounds. Captain Aubrey foaled in 1904 and had an impressive racing career until 1912, then began his career as a stud horse. He was purchased under the advice of Dr. Cumming for NSAC in 1917 and used for stud. Pure Bred Stallion Enrollment no. 14 Captain Aubrey 107 1/4 Son of Peter the Great 2:07 1 / 4.

Photograph of attendees of the 1928 Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists meeting

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 5, Folder 2
File
1928

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

A century of farm life and agriculture in Nova Scotia / Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 16
Item
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Melville Cumming's course related records

Subseries
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Subseries contains Dr. Melville Cumming's records related to the courses he taught at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College student notebook

MS-14-24, MS-14, Box 9, Folder 24
Item
1905-1927

Item is a Nova Scotia Agricultural College student notebook from between 1905-1927.

Cumming articles related to farming and agriculture

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 19
File
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

File contains four articles by Melville Cumming on farming, farm life, and agriculture.

One phase of a farmer's religion / [Melville Cumming]

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 19, Item 3
Item
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Articles and papers by Melville Cumming

Series
[1905?]-1927

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Series contains addresses, articles, and correspondence written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming between about 1905-1927 related to agriculture in Nova Scotia.

An interest in the farm / [Melville Cumming]

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 19, Item 4
Item
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Melville Cumming articles

MS-14-1, MS-14 OVR Box 2, Folder 18
File
1911 & 1927

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

File contains two articles written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming, one from May 1911 published in MacDonald College Magazine, "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, N.S.", and one from 1927 for "The Herald" entitled "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College".

Melville Cumming article "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College"

MS-14-1, MS-14 OVR Box 2, Folder 18, Item 1
Item
1927

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is an article written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming for "The Herald" entitled "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College" from 1927.

Melville Cumming article "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, N.S."

MS-14-1, MS-14 OVR Box 2, Folder 18, Item 2
Item
1927

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is an article written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming for MacDonald College Magazine entitled "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, N.S.", from May 1911.

Melville Cumming articles

MS-14-1, MS-14 OVR Box 1, Folder 11
File
1919-1926

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

File contains two articles written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming on the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and an article prepared for MacDonald College Magazine.

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

Agriculture / Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 5
Item
1924

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

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.

Greater returns from livestock through pasture improvement / Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 21
Item
1923

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

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.

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.

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.

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

1916 list of perennials grown at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, Box 4, Folder 19
File
1916

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Nova Scotia Agricultural College horticultural and landscape architecture records

Subseries
1913–1916

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Subseries contains records relating to horticulture and landscape architecture of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. Records include the working plan of plots, list of perennials, and tables of dates of sowing, plowing and working in vegetables plots for seasons between 1913-1916.

Photocopied 1916 newspaper article re. Nova Scotia government agricultural policy

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 20
File
1916

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a photocopy of a 9 June 1916 news item from The Pictou Advocate written by Robert H. MacKay, R. Henry Graham, and Robert M. MacGregor, "The Farmers Candidates," entitled "The Policy of the Government in Respect to AGRICULTURE is Centralized at the Provincial College and Farm at Truro."

Two 1915 Nova Scotia Agricultural College junior year English literature tests

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 30
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of the 1915 short course participants at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 10, Folder 9
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a b&w group picture of Nova Scotia Agricultural College students enrolled in a short course in January 5-15, 1915.

1915 tables of dates of sowing, plowing and working plans of vegetable plots for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, Box 4, Folder 20
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains tables of dates of sowing, plowing, and working plans of vegetables plots for the 1915 season on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. Created by James Allan, Superintendent of Horticulture.

1915 exhibition vegetable plot plan at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, Box 4, Folder 17
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Glenn Stephen Ells exams

MS-14-47, MS-14, Box 134, Folder 5
File
December 1913 - March 1915

File contains 25 exam papers likely taken by Glen Stephen Ells between the junior and senior year (1913-1915) for subjects associated with agriculture at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The exam papers are mostly typed and cover a range of topics from entomology, dairy, animal husbandry, commercial law, mathematics, and English literature. The exams are annotated and scribbled over and appear to mainly belong to one student Glen Stephen Ells. One exam paper in particular shows strategy planning for a hockey game on the reverse of which Ells was a team-member.

Ells, Glenn Stephens

1915 graduating class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 11, Folder 9
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College faculty and graduating students in 1915.

Milford W. Pierce fonds

MS-14-63
Fonds
1883-1913

Fonds contains books, textbooks and government documents, and eight classroom notebooks kept by Milford Pierce during his studies at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (1905-1907), as well as a book dating to his year at Macdonald College (1912-1913).

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