Item is a notebook with entries dating from 1903-1908 detailing the number of eggs laid and/or for what they were sold, as well as observations about hens. It was possibly kept by a woman in Sheffield, New Brunswick.
Item is a booklet published by the N.S. Department of Agriculture, it is the address by Melville Cumming, then Secretary of Agriculture, before the Halifax Canadian Club on Dec. 4, 1908.
Item consists of a facsimile draft manuscript outlining the history of the Solsearch Architects and New Alchemy Institute Ark project in Spry Point, Prince Edward Island, likely written in late 1976, discussing solar energy and food production at the facility.
Item is a book called Lest we forget by Loran Arthur DeWolfe It is a history and reminiscence of the Normal College, or Summer School of Rural Science, which ran in Truro 1909-1930 and 1940-1942
Item is a copy of Dal Magazine (Fall 2015), which features articles about Dalhousie research into food supply; cancer research in Nova Scotia; and the impact of competitive sport according to university athletes.
Item is a copy of Dal Magazine (Fall 2017), which features articles about CKDU radio; the role of Dalhousie during the Halifax Explosion; and food research at Dalhousie.
Item is a copy of Dal Magazine (Spring 2022), which features spotlight interviews with Dal alumni Brice Scheschuk (BCOMM '94), Jeremy Dutcher (BA '12), partners David Hodgson and Sara Fedullo (BENG '21), William (Bill) Stanish (MD '70), and Marriam Abou-El-Haj; an article about the research project "Home Food Gardening in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Food Security Considerations"; and a story about research in music, medicine and neuroscience.
Item consists of a facsimile of Dr. A.P. Reid's address before the Nova Scotia Dairyman's Association meeting, held in Halifax on March 18th, 1890, titled "The Dairy of the Future, or, Theory and Practice Combined", copied from the T.C. Allen-published pamphlet of the same year.
Item consists of a typescript of an address delivered by Carleton Stanley at a meeting of the Women's Institute in Truro, Nova Scotia, dated November 4, 1931. Includes discussions on agriculture, the machinery industry, and economics.
Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's address at the annual meeting of the Nova Scotia Farmers' Association, at the Halifax Hotel, January 24, 1933, discussing the relation between economics and agriculture.