Collection contains correspondence and an article, some are from Nova Scotia Agricultural College principals, or faculty, topics cover early education, the Canadian fruit trade, and trotting.
File contains the guide notes for the 12 part radio broadcasting series "Co-operative Series." Topics include the importance of co-operation of those involved in the farming industry, including farmers, producers, and consumers.
File contains the guide notes for a 10 part radio broadcasting series called "Farm Planning Series." Topics of this radio series include farming types, enterprises, management, economics, etc., broadcast in 1941.
Fonds contains Jean Mason Pell's broadcast scripts for The Gillans, a dramatic radio serial about a farming family produced for the Maritime version of CBC's Farm Family, which aired from 1941-1971. It was written by Norman Creighton and Kay Hill until 1949, when Jean Pell took over as the scriptwriter until the serial's final season in 1971. Scripts for the program, which aired every weekday, are arranged in chronological order; the occurrence of "emergency scripts," which were substituted when one or more characters were unable to perform, resulted in some episode numbers being skipped or numbered out of order.
Item is a speech written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming honoring Dr. W. H. Brittain – Provincial Entomologist of Nova Scotia – and given at the Fruit Growers Association at Kentville on October 22, 1926.
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.
File contains the "The School of Agriculture 1885 - 1905" by Harvey W. MacPhee ; 1985, "The Nova Scotia School of Horticulture 1894-1904" by Sean D. Smith ; 1987, and "Alexander Forrester and the Establishment of a Normal School" by Robert P Harvey ; 1989.
