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Agricultural archives reference collection
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Agricultural archives reference collection

  • MS-14-REF
  • Collection
  • 1846-2007
Collection contains materials related to agriculture, which includes related organizations, industries, education, machinery, research, products, livestock, harvesting, management, crops, etc. These were published between 1846-2007.

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

Nova Scotia government documents and a reproduction of a catalogue related to agriculture

File contains five volumes related to agriculture. Titles include:
1. A reproduction of "A catalogue of the whole of the live and dead farming stock comprising 13 young and active cart horses.... steam engine.... also part of the household furniture.... which will be sold by Messr. W. Brown & Co. on Tuesday and Thursday September 28th and 30th, 1880... by direction of the trustees of the late Mr. Lasenby, who are giving up the Farm at Michaelmas. No. 1078. At head of cover "Charteridge, Chesham"
2. Herb garden : seeds for your herb garden / by Beatrice A. Clark. With authoritative books on herbs, a bifold cardstock with seed samples. Published by the Cypress Press ca. 1937.
3. Rothamsted Experimental Station : guide to the experimental farm -- Lawes Agricultural Trust. 1947.
4. Genetics of some new type foxes / C.K. Gunn. 1945. Publication / Dominion of Canada, Dept. of Agriculture ; no. 768. Technical bulletin / Dominion of Canada, Dept. of Agriculture ; no. 53.
5. Flax / William Saunders, Canada Department of Agriculture. 1896. Original issued in series: Bulletin / Dept. of Agriculture, Central Experimental Farm ; no. 25.

Livestock reference resources

Series consists of reference material relating to Maritime livestock shows, sales, and auctions, as well as livestock in Canada and in India. Subseries include materials covering beef cattle, dairy cattle and dairy practice, horses, sheep and goat, and swine published between 1880-2007.

Documents related to agriculture

File contains two volumes related to agriculture.
1. Catalogue of trotting stock belonging to A.J. Alexander, Woodburn Farm, Spring Station, Woodford County Kentucky. 1885. - first five pages have dried water stains.
2. An album of first prize winners in classes and groups, international [shorthorn cattle] / American Short-horn Breeders' Association. 1914.

Nova Scotia government documents related to agriculture

File contains three Nova Scotia government documents and reports related to agriculture between 1898 and 1930. Titles include "Game Laws, Nova Scotia 1919", "Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturalists List of Members 1930", and "Nova Scotia : its agricultural resources" by B. W. Chipman, Secretary for Agriculture, 1898.

Nova Scotia government documents and catalogues related to agriculture

File contains four volumes related to agriculture. Titles include "The Catalogue of Albert H. Merrill [1912] of Danvers, Massachusetts (horse - pacers and trotters)", "Seaweed as a Fertilizer" by L.C. Harlow, "Report of a visit to Great Britain and the continent of Europe in the winter of 1897-98" by Duncan McEachran, published by the authority of the Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa, August 1898, and Campineology : the story of the living egg machines / by J. Fred N. Kennedy [1914] related to campine chickens.

Berry reference resources

Subseries contains articles relating to berries including blackberry, cranberry, raspberry and strawberry. Topics include production, marketing, management, harvesting, pathology, etc. and were published between 1910-1982.
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