Archives Catalogue

Tractor and farm equipment manual collection

MS-14-51
Collection
[19-]

Collection contains tractor and farm equipment manuals that were collected and used by staff of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College for equipment used on the campus in the 20th Century. Included with the manuals were approximately 100 black and white photographs of fields and crops that need to be inventoried.

Tractors and plow hitches (#761) / B.A. Jennings

MS-14-REF, Box 2, Folder 22
File
1943

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Transcript of Melville Cumming's radio address in Moncton, Agriculture in Nova Scotia

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 9
Item
March 6, 1925

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Transcripts of the vanishing flock, April 3 - October 23, 1950

MS-14-22, MS-14, Box 35, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
1950

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Tree, bush, and stump clearance

MS-14-REF, Box 2, Folder 33
File
1959

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Tribute to Dr. Melville Cumming House of Assembly, Halifax, N. S.

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 23, Item 1
Item
April 17, 1969

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is 2 copies of an address by The Honorable Harvey A. Veniot, Minister of Agriculture & Marketing.

Tribute to Dr. W.H. Britain at the Banquet tendered him by the N.S.F.G.A. at Kentville (1926)

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 54
File
1926

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Tributes to Dr. Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 23
File
[ca.1969]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 3 textual records, consisting of booklets that tribute to Dr. Melville Cumming

Trouble shooting in the binder knotter / E.G. Webb

MS-14-REF, Box 2, Folder 37
File
1956

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Truro Daily News editions to celebrate the Nova Scotia Agricultural College's centennial anniversary

UA-43, OVR Box 3, Folder 21
File
February 14, 2006

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains three issues of the Truro Daily News that feature the Nova Scotia Agricultural College's 100th anniversary and the postage stamp that was created. The dates of the issues are: Monday, February 14, 2005, Tuesday, February 15, 2005, and Tuesday, February 14, 2006.

T-shirt prepared for "Old Tyme" Sheep Fair. Olds, Alberta Sept. 1991

MS-14-22, OVR Box 5
File
1991

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Turnips for local and American markets / M. Cumming

MS-14-REF, Box 12, Folder 23, Item 5
Item
[19-?]

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

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

Two cities co-operative dairy limited

MS-14-REF, Box 12, Folder 12
File
[19-?]

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Two important vegetable pests / W.H. Brittain

MS-14-REF, Box 16, Folder 1, Item 1
Item
1917

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Typed transcription of the farm diary of Zabud MacKay (Malagash)

MS-14-9, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 10
Item
April 12 - 0ct. 27, 1900

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Types of farming in Canada : a co-operative study by the Economics Division Marketing Service and the Census Division Dominion Bureau of Statistics / by S. C. Hudson, R. A. Stutt, Wm Van Vleit, J. L. Forsyth

MS-14-131, MS-14, Box 217, Folder 9
Item
1949

Part of Walter V. Grant fonds

Uber die "Sprache" der Bienen / Karl von Frisch

MS-14-REF, Box 26, Folder 4
File
1923

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

United States Department of Agriculture

MS-14-22, MS-14, Box 37, Folder 1
File
1918-1973

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

This file contains 11 publications relating to sheep, which includes diseases, research, equipment, breed, etc. They were published by the United States' Department of Agriculture between 1918-1973.

Universal price list of repair parts for all standard machines and implements manufactured by The Frost & Wood Co. Limited

Subseries
1910-1918

Part of Peers family fonds

Subseries contains universal price lists of repair parts for all standard machines and implements manufactured by The Frost & Wood Co. Limited from 1910, 1914, and 1918.

Universal price list of repair parts for all standard machines and implements manufactured by The Frost & Wood Co. Limited

MS-14-68, MS-14, Box 285, Folder 1
File
September 1, 1915

Part of Peers family fonds

Universal price list of repair parts for all standard machines and implements manufactured by The Frost & Wood Co. Limited

MS-14-68, MS-14, Box 285, Folder 2
File
January 1, 1918

Part of Peers family fonds

Universal [retail] price list of repair parts for all standard machines and implements manufactured by The Frost & Wood Co. Limited

MS-14-68, MS-14, Box 269, Folder 8
File
June 1910

Part of Peers family fonds

University thesis and papers related to sheep and the sheep industry

Series
1939-1985

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Series contains 14 theses and university extension papers related to sheep production between 1939-1985.

Unknown name

MS-14-22, MS-14, Box 54, Folder 1, Item 6
Item
1993

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Unreserved auction sale of registered Aberdeen-Angus Cattle, Amherst, N.S.

MS-14-REF, Box 5, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
June 4, 1955

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Unveiling and Dedication Service - Pioneer Cemetery

MS-14-REF, Box 28, Folder 11
Item
1964

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Urea spray in nitrogen nutrition of apple trees

MS-14-1, Box 126, Folder 16, Item 2
Item
[19-]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is a 1 page report written by C.P Harley and H.H. Moon of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Using a geographic information system (GIS) to associate forest stand characteristics with top kill due to defoliation by the jack pine budworm / R.J. Hall, W.J.A. Volney, and Y. Wang, reproduction from : Canadian journal of forest research (1998) v.28(9):1317-1327

UA-43-REF, Box 30, Folder 5, Item 11
Item
1998

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College archival reference collection

Utilization of Point Aconi CFB ash as an agricultural soil amendment : final research report / prepared by Norman Goodyear, P.Ag., Project leader and Maggie Hope-Simpson, M.Sc., Research associate, Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, Box 12, Folder 3
File
October 2000

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains Utilization of Point Aconi CFB ash as an agricultural soil amendment : final research report. Detailing a three year study conducted to evaluate Point Aconi Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) ash, which is approximately one third each of unreacted sorbent (CaO), gypsum (CaSO4), and coal ash, as an agricultural soil amendment and liming agent.

Variation between ranch blue fox populations in cranial form / J. Welling... [et al.], reproduction from : Journal of animal breeding and genetics (2001) no.118:37-45

UA-43-REF, Box 30, Folder 6, Item 7
Item
2001

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College archival reference collection

Variations in costs and returns from hogs

MS-14-13, MS-14, Box 6, Folder 7, Item 4
Item
1964

Part of George C Retson fonds

Venture Gas presentation photograph

UA-43, PB Box 3, Folder 22
File
[19-?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a photograph from the Venture Gas presentation. Robert Burgess. No date.

Video recording of Nova Scotia Agricultural College's 'International night : glimpse of other worlds' 1993

UA-43, AV Box 7, Folder 4
Item
1993

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College archival reference collection

Item is a copy of the VHS cassette Nova Scotia Agricultural College's 'International night : glimpse of other worlds' 1993.

Video recording of Nova Scotia Agricultural College's 'International night : window to the world' 1994

UA-43, AV Box 7, Folder 5
Item
1994

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College archival reference collection

Item is a copy of the VHS cassette Nova Scotia Agricultural College's 'International night : window to the world' 1994.

Vocational and continuing education review / Nova Scotia Agricultural College & CISD International, Inc.

UA-43-REF, Box 31, Folder 1, UA-43-REF, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 2
File
1992

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College archival reference collection

File contains a review of requirements, administrative roles, guidelines, and policy recommendations for vocational and continuing educations programs at the NSAC.

Vol. XXX No. 4 Aug. 9, 1963. Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing, Extension Service

MS-14-REF, Box 7, Folder 17, Item 7
Item
Aug. 9, 1963

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Vol. XXX No.5 Oct. 15, 1963. Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing, Extension Service

MS-14-REF, Box 7, Folder 17, Item 8
Item
Oct. 15, 1963

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Walking wheel

MS-14-25
Item
[between 1875-1880]

Part of Peter Sanger fonds

Item is a walking wheel handmade from rock maple around 1875-1880, probably in Northern Colchester County. It was acquired from an old farm house in East Earltown, Nova Scotia.

Walsh photographs of Nova Scotia Boy's and Girls Clubs and sheep and swine promotion

Subseries
1919-1926

Part of Frederick Waldemar Walsh fonds

Subseries contains photographs taken and collected by Waldo Walsh of Nova Scotia Boy's and Girls Clubs in the early 1920s when Walsh was a professor of Animal Husbandry [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] and sheep and swine promoter. Subjects include Mabou, Pictou county, Annapolis (Lawrencetown) and Yarmouth. Lottie Austin and some Beaton's and Rankins may be in the Mabou pictures.

On 99.3 card; Accession list title: Walsh photo/neg collection. 4 envelopes sorted photos/neg; 1 box metal neg. rolls.

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.

Watchclock

UA-43, Museum, Range 10, Shelf 4
Item
[1905-1999]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a "Detex Newman" watchclock with guardsman Key. Likely used at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The Detex was brought out in the 1920s.

Water management reference resources

Subseries
1952-1980

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Subseries contains reference material on water management. Includes material on flood analysis; silt deposition and erosion; and tidal data for Nova Scotia. Also contains 843 photographs and negatives.

Water reference resources

Series
1911-1990

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Series records relating to water resources in Nova Scotia, which includes water quality, water management, water sheds, tides, etc., published between 1911-1990.

Water-soluble and liquid fertilizers

MS-14-1, Box 126, Folder 21, Item 2
Item
1952

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a scientific paper written by M.S. Anderson of the Untied States Department of Agriculture in 1952

Weekly weather summary for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island / compiled by Meteorological Branch of the Department of Transport

MS-14-REF, Box 7, Folders 8-16
File
1971-1979

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Western Kings Co Artificial Breeding Unit fonds

MS-14-23
Fonds
1943-1949

Fonds contains records created by the Western Kings Artificial Breeding Unit of Aylesford, Nova Scotia. Records were created between 1943-1949 and include unit formation, meeting minutes, correspondence, and a ledger.

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