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The item is a reel of b&w documentary film from ca. 1931. "Vancouver Island bulb grower and his home and garden. October, planting time, bulbs being shaken from the back of the tractor into every second furrow, then placed by hand. Spring cultivation with a rototiller. Men in overcoats inspecting plants for disease and insect damage. Pan across field of daffodils. Pickers picking blooms to improve the bulb, then dumping them into a heap to be destroyed. Pickers playing in a pile of flowers. Men inspecting good blooms. Diseased or insect-smitten bulbs are rogued, or dug up and destroyed. Huge litter of cut blooms being carried away by pickers. Bulbs ploughed out of the ground by a tractor that once was a Ford car. Helpers collecting the bulbs from the top of the furrow. Bulbs in baskets, transported to drying sheds. Loose bulbs are unloaded into drying trays for storage. Stacking trays in storage shed, unloading truck." (Colin Browne)

The item is a documentary film on two reels:
Reel one: Choosing a cockerel at a Fall Fair (looks Like Saanichton Fall Fair). A chicken yard. How to set eggs on the family farm. Making a hatching nest. Three weeks later - hatched chicks. A successful hawk trap from England. Four-week-old chicks drinking milk. Feeding greens to chicks. Culling sick ones. An autopsy reveals congested lungs from chilling. Cutting a tire in half lengthwise makes two watering rings. Feeding water to chicks. Culling slow-feathering chicks. Cleaning out the poultry shed. Poultry inspector visiting and helping farm wife select the best cockerels. The rest will be fattened. The correct feed explained for fattening. A young boy on his wagon.
Reel two: Taking eggs to hatchery. Hatchery man inspects eggs then pays farmer. Special incubator made in B.C. Toes punched on some little chicks. Flocks of chicks & pullets in hatchery. Chicks drinking clabbered milk. Smearing chicks with lard & snuff to prevent cannibalism. Pullets in a farmyard pen. Stages of growth for two young chicks, Jiggs & Maggie, from 1 week to 12 weeks old, although Jiggs is not present for the last shot, having "got the rolling pin." How to get roosting fowls down from a tree - make a Long stick with a "T" at the end. Mother hens with chicks on the free range. Pullets in a pen. Marketing eggs at the Co-op, truck pulls up to COWICHAN CREAMERY TRADERS. Man unloading and checking crates of eggs. How to skin a chicken - better than dry-picking or scalding - a complete demonstration. Show winners - cockerels and hens -- Leghorn, Rhode Island Red, White Wyandottes, Light Sussex, Barred Rocks." (Colin Browne)

The item is a b&w film documentary from 1936. "Jersey breeders convene for a day trip to the Cowichan Valley to meet with other breeders and visit a Jersey farm in the Valley. There are good shots of cars on the Brentwood-Mill Bay ferry, driving on and off. A group of breeders and a barn full of Jersey cows. Cloth banner: 'Welcome from Cowichan Jersey Cattle Club.' Pan across farm, perhaps just south of Duncan, to banner over the driveway. Shots of Jersey bulls. Breeders having a glass of beer. Shots of Jersey cows and breeders. Ladies at farmhouse -- a long buffet table. Breeders eating. A little girl with a big cake." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of b&w documentary film. "Long wordy introduction and explanation of how sheep are bred and how breeds come into being. A flock of pure-bred Shropshire sheep on the run in a field. Flock with lambs. Men holding two rams back, side, and front to explain breed characteristics. Doing the same with two unshorn ewes and two Iambs. The "Kerry Hill" (Wales) sheep -- The Speckled-Faced Rent Payer! Map of England showing where Kerry Hills come from. Origin of Kerry Hill sheep explained. 'Charles Eccleston of Vancouver Island is an old Shropshire sheep-man. With the assistance of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and the Empire Marketing Board he imported the first Kerry Hills to America."' Views of Kerry Hill sheep while explaining salient features." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film from ca. 1945. "Views of holes showing strata of soil which are identified by digger and by caption. A few shots of fields and swampy forest. There are no landmarks or identifiable scenes." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of colour nature film made sometime in the 1930s. "Includes shots of Easter lilies (dogtooth-violets), peacocks, dogwood, daisies, trilliums, periwinkle, Indian paintbrush, honeysuckle, yellow daisies, broom, Oregon grape, yarrow, fireweed, and many others. It appears as if most of this film was shot on Vancouver Island." (Colin Browne)