This file contains 5 publications concerning research and technology in sheep production, sheep grading and marketing , Romanov sheep, etc. They were published by the Canadian Department of Agriculture between 1935-1987.
File contains field notebooks and soil profile descriptions in Nova Scotia from the 1940s to the 1960s. The field notebooks are initialed J.D.H. for Hants county, one initialed A.M.M. covering Berwick and Annapolis County, one initialed D.C.M. / C.B. covering Hants County, Debert, Truro, Upper Kennetcook, one initialed C.B. for Margaree and Richmond county, one initialed Annp, for Annapolis Valley, one that highlights Musquodoboit, one for Lunenburg, Queens, Shelburne etc. A datebook for 1970 noting the Masstown and Belmont areas, no name, Inside front cover marked Government of Canada employee. There are also photographs from Ontario, depicting agriculturalists, agricultural activities in orchards in Ile d'Orleans, Many photographs are marked by F.F.M. from 1945 in New Liskeard, Cochrane, Strickland Ontario, properties of Peter Johnson and others, a Temiskaming [sic Timiskaming] farmstead, and Temagami forest. Photographs feature and crop fields, farm homes and structures, the condition of a soil surveyor's car, and soil samples. There is also soil sample data from Halifax, Shelburne, Guysboro [sic Guysborough], Digby, Lunenburg, Queens, Yarmouth, Colchester, Cumberland, Valley, and the South Shore.
Item was written by F.C. Elford, Dominion Poultry Husbandman, and H. S. Gutteridge, Poultry Husbandman. Item was publlished by Poultry Division, Dominion Experimental Farms. Printed by J.O. Patenaude, I.S.O..
File contains photographs of the 1938 South Side Baddeck, etc. Garden Club Show, 1938, "Club work". People and individuals are depicted in front of tables of fruits and vegetables and plants on exhibit. Also featured are groups of people in a field where they appear to be showing cattle, beef or dairy.
File contains the first term examination for the course 'Horticulture, small fruits', dated January 29, 1938. Also included is the examination for the senior 'English' course, dated January 1938. Both examinations were issued from Dr. Stan Curtis at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.
File contains correspondence from Lyman T. Chapman, Office of the Principal, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, to members of the NSAC Alumni Association re: changes to the 1939 NSAC academic calendar. Changes include a wider printing and distribution of the calendar, 1,500 printed in 1937-38, 3,000 the previous year, and 5,000 copies printed for the 1939-40 year. General course students could enroll in the new "horticulture" option in their second year, or "mixed farming". A department of Farm Management was established. Details of the two, two-year courses offered, and the vocational short courses.
