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List of tables of agricultural statistics

Item is a list of tables presented by the Economics Division, Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture, at the Annual Meeting of Nova Scotia Fruit Grower's Association, Kentville, N.S., Dec. 10, 1941.
Table 1: Utilization of Nova Scotia apple crops vs forecast
Table 2: Cost of production in selected areas of the world
Table 3: Utilization of Nova Scotia apple crops
Table 4: Utilization of apples for peeling in Nova Scotia
Table 5: Cost of producing apples, 7 selected growers, per bearing acre and per bushel
Table 6: Census of Canada Data - Nova Scotia

1950's class I of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

Item is a photograph of students of the 1950's class I of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 10 men in suit jackets facing the camera in two rows. The front row is sitting. There are 7 men in two rows facing camera in suit jackets.
Front row sitting. Annotated on reverse : “Students Complete Farm Training – When Graduation Exercises were held at the NSAC, among those receiving diplomas were students who were students of the Advanced Farm Class who have completed their course at the Institution. The class is shown above. Reading from left to right, are: Front Row: D. E. M. Fisher, R. R. #4, Amherst; G. W. Allen, Milton ; C. R. Levo, R. R. #1, Westville; G. L. Zwicker, R. R. #4, Bridgetown. Back Row: D. R. Barrett, Truro; J. J. Bowlby, Aylesford; L. G. Tattrie, River John. Mat Attached. W. J. MacLeod, Superintendent of Services.

Benjamin Bell -- New Brunswick Land Grant

  • MS-14-61, MS-14-OS Box 4, Folder 21
  • Item
  • May 29th, 1844

Item is a land grant : New Brunswick, Victoria, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain… give and grant unto Benjamin Bell (lis?) Heirs and assigns, a tract of Land situated in the parish of Srysex (Sussex?) in the county of Kings in our Province of New Brunswick… No. 3217 Registered the 29th day of May 1844 ... by his Excellency’s command Wm F. Odell(?)

Bell, Benjamin, II, Born Feb 07 1806 in Ballintra, Drumholm, Co. Donegal, Ireland, Died Dec 23 1876 in New Brunswick, Canada (http://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/familytree?uid=nbell&surname=Bell)

Walking wheel

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.

New Brunswick fruit salesman's catalogue

Item is a travelling fruit salesman's catalog used for showing the varieties offered by a nursery. Contents : Sussex Nursery, Kings County, New Brunswick. Lithographer : J. W. Thompson and Co, Rochester New York. ca.1876-1891.
Nurserymen's coloured plates were produced by J. W. Thompson and Co. of Rochester, New York. J. W. Thompson and Co. operated by John Wrigley Thompson (b. 1826 England ; d. 1900 New York) between 1876 and 1891.
For more information: http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2397 University of Rochester Library Bulletin: Volume XXXV • 1982 Nineteenth-Century Rochester Fruit and Flower Plates* --KARL SANFORD KABELAC

Photograph of professor H.W. Smith and a group of students

Item is a photograph of H.W. Smith and a group of students sitting on a set of steps outside a building, they are dressed in suit and ties. Also seen are a young person and several dogs. H.W. Smith was the first lecturer appointed to the newly created Agriculture course at the Provincial Normal School in 1885. The School of Agriculture, later known as the College of Agriculture. Smith was instrumental in the merger of the School of Agriculture and the Provincial Farm in Bible Hill to create the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (1905-2012). Smith taught at the NSAC until approximately 1924.

Photograph of a person holding the lead line of a horse on what may be the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus with Longley house in the background

Item is a photograph of a person holding the lead line of a horse. It may have been taken on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus with Longley house in the background. Longley house was the original farm house that stood on campus when the property was purchased for the School of Agriculture Farm in 1889. It was removed from campus in 1957. It was at one point the home of Fred Fuller, the first manager of the Provincial farm, and later was occupied by professor Smith, head of the School of Agriculture.

Photographs and newspaper clipping of Longley House, the residence for college presidents on the campus of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

Items are photographs and a newspaper clipping from the Truro Daily News of Longley House. This residence was on the Blanchard property when it was purchased by the College in 1886. It was used as the residence for college principals on the campus of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The reverse has in handwriting: "the first house built for college president, at top of hill on College Road, right hand side going up".

Reproduction of a photograph of the original building on the property of the Provincial Farm/School of Agriculture

Item is a reproduction of a photograph of the original building on the property of the Provincial Farm/School of Agriculture which burned down in 1898. This became the site of the Nova Scotia College of Agriculture, Harlow Institute is now on site. There is an octagonal swine barn that was built by students 1891 and was removed before 1913.

Photograph of the original building on the property of the Provincial Farm/School of Agriculture

Item is a photograph of the original building on the property of the Provincial Farm/School of Agriculture which burned down in 1898. This became the site of the Nova Scotia College of Agriculture, Harlow Institute is now on site. There is an octagonal swine barn that was built by students 1891 and was removed before 1913.
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