Showing 262 results

Title taken from contents of the collection. The collection consists of correspondence, articles, notes, photographs related to the Brownsville Factory in Oxford County and history of the powdered milk industry in Ontario

The Burton Noble Gates collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, dry plates, pamphlets, journals, letters, file cards, price lists, honey labels, reprints, posters, artifacts, reports collected by Prof. Gates relating to Apiculture. This collection is chiefly pre-1930 and includes material from the U.S.A., Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Russia, China, Japan, South America, and the Caribbean.

The collection contains promotional brochures, advertisements, and a manual related to the Butler Manufacturing Company Ltd.

Fonds includes a manuscript, photographs, and a scrapbook related to "History of Our New Laid Egg Business at Exeter, Ontario, 1908-29" (1951) by C.F. Hooper.

The Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame Association collection contains nominee applications for recognition in the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame, as well as some correspondence, biographical booklets, and banquet invitations for unveiling (1964, 1974-1990, 1999).

The collection contains a club creed for the Ontario Homemaking Club Girls (typescript), as well as an oversized panoramic photograph of the winners of the Provincial Boys' and Girls' Farm Club contests at the Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, in 1932, which was under the direction of the Canadian Council on Boys' and Girls' Club Work.

Miscellaneous photographs depicting Canadian farming. Includes photos of ploughing, discing, rolling and seeding crops (some in Western Canada); harvesting and threshing grain (some in Western Canada), filling silo, farm milk cooler, cows on pasture, farm scenes, various poultry breeds, cutting and loading hay, stump pulling, lumber yard, fruit and vegetable growing and harvesting, smoking bees, apiary in St. Hyacinthe, Andy Lusk livery stable, border collie and shepherd herding sheep, Canadian Experimental Farm (Ottawa) grain plots; Hon. Manning Doherty milking Holstein cow in front of Parliament Building, Toronto, during milk campaign, Spring 1921; early reaping machine made in Fergus; Alvin Moyer?, Frank Sumner and Abraham Orth on steam engine, wagon, and threshing machine with oxen, taken on Fly Rd. overlooking field which is now Vineland Quarries Equipment near Campden (n.d.); Toronto windmill located in Wellington County area; first threshing (machine owned by Edward Best) at the new Bentham barn 1908 located in Artemesia Township south of Flesherton (copy from original along with photocopied identification of family members and threshers); unidentified group of farmers at a sale (n.d.)

The Canadian Farm Writers' Federation collection contains newsletters, executive minutes, reports, constitution and by-laws, conference information, annual meetings minutes, correspondence, awards programs, press releases, newspapers, financial information, photographs, videotapes, cassette tapes, and publicity, records.

The Canadian Potato Machinery Company collection includes advertising flyers for O.K. Canadian two-row sprayer and O.K. mammoth field sprayer; Ontario licenses, 1908-1909; transfer of patent rights for potato diggers and planters, cattle stanchions, and sprayers from Amos Rush and Otto Knoerzer, 1905-1914, 1921; correspondence, by-laws, receipts, 1909-1924; corporation information and tax statements, 1960-1966; and a book of shares, 1909-1954, 1960.

The collection contains tractor brochures, operator and maintenance manuals, product data (sales training and development), and service bulletins related to the Caterpillar Tractor Company.