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The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:

1. Soil mixing. Preparing a garden: organic matter, fertilizers, sawdust, wood chips. Earthworms. Lime.
2. Manufacture of step ladders (for fruit picking) at Kal Craft Ladders in Oyama.
3. Ferry crossing a river. Views of a farm: house, garden, weather instruments (for Dept. of Transport); poultry, pigs. Milking cows and sampling milk. Calves. Cleaning all the milk-handling equipment. Sign: "Ayrshires, B.U. Schilling, Darfield, B.C.
4. Sheep. Sheep pavilion at PNE. Selecting sheep in corral; in pasture; grooming sheep at the PNE.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Gardening procedures: pruning, planting. Colour views of flower garden, roses. Planting a shrub. A settlement. Young farm workers. Picking fruit. Picking beets. Harvesting potatoes. Building a root cellar [?]. Selecting beets. Children watching television. Picking fruit. Workers. Workers' camp.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
"The Glades, March '71": The Glades is a five-acre woodland garden in Surrey, created by Murray and Lydia Stephen. "Potatoes, Aug. '67": Sowing and picking potatoes by hand. Harvesting potatoes by machine. Peaches: handling, treatment, sorting, and testing of peaches at the Oliver Co-Op and Monashee Co-Op.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Apples, bin, forklift; one man fruit-picking crane. Pear orchard. Thinning fruit trees. Young pears. Drawing of an insect. Diseased pears. Fruit-laden trees in orchard, their branches supported and suspended. Picking pears from crane, ladder, and the ground. Forklift loading truck with bins of pears. Sign on truck: "Kelowna Growers, Rutland-Kelowna Exchange". Packing pears at plant. Views of area, home, orchard.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:

1. Orchard views; apples; young tree trunk protected with wire mesh.
2. Winter landscape; creek, irrigation works; building a pipeline, Oyama Irrigation District.
3. Apple orchard; workers picking apples.
4. Harvesting grapes.
5. Home-style winemaking in test kitchen [?]: crushing grapes, adding yeast, fermentation, racking, tasting.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: A man tells his retirement story and talks about his gardening and horticultural activities. Works on growing smaller fruit trees. No insecticides used. Grass growing in the orchard. His role in regaining U.S. market for B.C. apples; pollution control. Greenhouse. Flower garden. Sailing on Okanagan Lake. Dairy plant: milk being processed through various stages, and being packaged or bottled.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
"Dairy - Gill - June 71": Construction of dairy farm buildings. Treatment of liquefied manure. Views of farm area, cattle, pasture. New feed racks. Automated milking and milk treatment equipment. "Sheep - PNE - Dec. 68": Sheep pavilion at the Pacific National Exhibition. In an interview, a champion sheep breeder from the Armstrong area discusses grooming and economics. Judging of sheep. The winners. Judges explains the criteria. Farm dog herds sheep. Sheep in separate pens and in barn. Preparations for the show.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: "Herefords Oct. 66" [leader label]: Cowboys rounding up cattle. Marking the cattle with a liquid. Ranchland panorama. Bull. Livestock yard [a test station?]. Ear marking of cattle. Taking blood samples. Cattle auction. A garden party.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
A. Peach trees. Small child eats a peach. An agriculturist discusses methods of growing peach trees. Earlier trees are too tall; the best height for pruning, thinning and picking is an arm's length. Root stock. The distance between trees and rows of trees. Shaping trees with trained growth. This is the economic way to grow peaches commercially. (00:14:31)
B. Log cabin; pasture; sheep. Ranch views. Cattle. House; garden. Family scenes. Flowers, corn, vegetables, fruit. Livestock auction firm. Adults and students from Soda Creek and Williams Lake 4-H Clubs. [Clubs are sponsored by the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture, Youth Development Branch.] A beef evaluation exercise. (00:12:58)

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:

1. Cattle ranch; log cabin; snow-covered hilltop. A rancher tends a newly-born calf. Cattle. Two bulls ready for a fight. A dressed-up young cowboy. Cowboys round up and drive cattle.
2. Orchard. Cherry picking. Making preserves in a test kitchen. Drying apricots: sulphuring, preparation, drying box. Preserving pitted cherries with syrup, raspberries with sugar. Boiling berries for freezing.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Cattle in pasture. Feeding cattle. Inoculating cattle. Laboratory, silo, empty corrals, new building. Panorama of location. Sampling, testing and analysis of hay. Sampling silage. Laboratory procedures Fruit-picking device. Tomato-picking machine. View of pickers. The film cameraman. Based on a label shown in the film, the location may be the experimental farm at Summerland.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Test with fruit trees; orchard scenes; controlled tree growth simplifies fruit picking; ripe apples; clipping of branch tips; meadow, cattle and creek, cattle in corral; rounding up cattle in the corral and weighing them; workers' living quarters.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Showing and working with cattle. Treating tomato blossoms in laboratory. Mixing soil in test greenhouse. Farm workers picking, sorting and boxing tomatoes.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
A. The Buckskin Land Cattle Company, located west of Williams Lake, is owned by Mr. And Mrs. Rudi Johnson and their children. To shorten the trip to town from the ranch, they have built a bridge over the Fraser River. It is on private property, but is open for public use. They tell the story of the bridge, and discuss plans to increase the size of their cattle herd from 400-500 to 1,000-1,100. (00:10:08)
B. At the federal agricultural research station in Summerland, Dr. Milmore [?] and Dr. MacArthur discuss their discovery of a way to eliminate bloat in cattle through controlled feeding. (00:04:25)
C. B.C.'s southern interior is one of the driest places in Canada. Al MacLean, of the federal agricultural research station in Kamloops, explains how to increase rangeland grass production by resting the land or re-seeding it with the most suitable grasses. (00:03:50)

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
South Peace Senior Secondary School: classroom and workshop activities. Greenhouse. Harris Flowers. Summerland Yacht Club. Newly completed public building (Vernon, B.C.): flower beds, library-museum-art-gallery, park and flower beds.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
A commentator describes the Agricultural Rehabilitation and Development Act (ARDA). The 'Ksan project: a First Nations village recreated near Hazelton. Campground and park for visitors. Longhouses. Splitting shingles, roofing. Malcolm Joseph [?] carving a totem pole; he describes and shows his work. Street scenes in village. Shop. A woman describes the figures modelled for the new museum, cast from actual people. Utensils and artifacts shown will demonstrate the traditional way of life. The many uses of cedar bark. A moose skin jacket. All items crafted by local First Nations people. (00:14:10)

B. An open-pit mine. Sign: "Endako Mines Ltd. NPL". Ferry crossing. Group at water works. Visitor inside log building. Road scenes; sign, "Telkwa River Valley". Inside a dairy plant [?]. Hudson Bay Glacier near Smithers. Moricetown Canyon. Inside 'Ksan museum and shop. 'Ksan village. Highway; farmland; a poultry farm. (00:11:42)

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Measuring depth and weight of snow for water resource estimates. Use of measuring equipment. Taking stream-flow measurements from a bridge. A wooden flume system; escaping water. Building a new asbestos-cement pipeline. Opening a dam. Testing water from a hand pump. Checking outdoor instruments. Man climbing down a manhole.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Mosquitoes as a pest to humans and domestic animals; controlling watery breeding places; dispersing insecticide by machine; mosquito larva; sequence on children learning to harness, ride and groom horses.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
"Codling moth & turkeys, Nov. 1965": animated footage about insecticides. Live footage showing development of the codling moth. Testing fruit. Collecting insects. Turkeys on turkey farm. Loading them for shipment. Christmas tree farm.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
A. Helicopter flying over forest with suspended bin. Aftermath of a forest fire. Truck on logging road. Examining burned tree trunks. Fueling a single-engined airplane at a bush airfield. Taxiing. Flying low over road and bush. Oil well and storage tank. Men signalling to circling plane. Examining bush growth. Cattle ranch. Forest. Two men at [airfield?]. (00:11:51)
B. Two young women tell the story of their registered Aberdeen Angus cattle herd. (00:07:30)

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:

1. Sorting apples; fruit processing machines. Laboratory for research on preparation of fruit products, new equipment, and packaging. Label: "Sun-Rype Sliced Fresh Peaches". Apple-peeling machine. Apple pulp press. Grinder. Sign: "Barkwills Ltd. Fruit Processors". View of plant. Peach canning operation, including processing machinery and boxing. Boxes marked "Royal City Peaches Halved" and "Brentwood Peaches Sliced".
2. Automatic sprinkling system: control panel; sprinkler heads in operation. Various orchard sprinkler systems.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
A1. "Heffley Creek, Apr. 68" [marked on head leader]: Sign: "Haughton Ranches Ltd." Ranch views. Crass-cutter. Cattle in corral. Snow-covered land. Dispersing hay in pasture for feed.
A2. "Dairy month, June 69" [marked on leader]: Cows move from pasture to holding area to mechanized milking area. 50 cows an hour. Bulk milk truck ("Okanagan Dairy Transport Ltd.") en route to dairy plant. Milk processing. Various sized cartons. Milk storage. Shipping to retailers. Customers selecting dairy products in supermarket. (00:19:21)
B. "Vegs Nov. 69" [marked on head leader]: A vegetable farm owner [?] describes the harvesting and packing of the asparagus crop. Portuguese farm workers and young people. Growing and harvesting cabbage. Potato harvesting machine. In partial partnership with man from Oliver. Sign: "Covert Farms". Grading and packing potatoes. Home scenes. (00:08:51)

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:

1. Ewe with two newly-born lambs. Grazing sheep. Shepherd with two dogs. Shearing sheep.
2. Sign: "Polled Herefords. Kelowna Ranches." View of ranch. Gathering of ranchers. Lunch. Bulls prepared for show. Audience and speakers at meeting. Showing a bull.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Farmland. Man collecting and packing asparagus. Sign: "Sher Singh, Prop. Kamloops". Cases of asparagus. Street scenes; supermarket interior; produce. Farmland. Carrot-picking machine. Washing, selecting and packing the carrots. Sign on bag: "F.W. Hack & Sons Ltd., Oliver, B.C." Truck marked "Vance Bros. Ltd., Wholesale Fruit, Trail, B.C." Loading truck. Picking vegetables.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
C. The Kamloops area is well-suited for raising beef cattle. Bill Hubbard [?] of the federal agricultural research station at Kamloops explains how to increase hay production on a "three-cut" basis; the right variety of forage; soil preparation, fertilizer, watering. Irrigation and sprinkler system. Cutting and stacking. (00:05:50)
D. Showing bulls. An indoor cattle auction. Sign: "Kelowna Ranches". Showing a bull. Auctioneers and bidders. Sign: "Polled Herefords". Bull in outdoor corral. (00:11:17)

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Picking apples; filling bins; bins to fruit processing plant. Apple juice production: floating, selecting, pulping, pressing, treatment, concentrating juice. Peeling and coring of apples; slicing; making apple sauce. Pressing and drying apple slices. Quality control testing laboratory. Canning apple juice. Labelled "Sun-Rype Apple Juice". Shipping. Various canned products. Children drinking juice.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Pruning fruit trees. Orchard views. Controlling branch growth of fruit trees.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Various heavy soil cultivating machines at work -- harrows, disk-harrows. People examining the results. Sign on truck: "Piper Valley Ranch Ltd., Dawson Creek, B.C." Filling a sowing-machine with seed.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Cattle in pasture. A combination grass-cutter and silage maker at work; filling the silo. Cleaning stable. Farm buildings. Cattle in pasture and going to stables. Mechanized milking and dairy operation.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:

1. A turkey farm. Feeding and shipping turkeys.
2. Greenhouse interior. Picking tomatoes -- workers and machine. Planting in greenhouse. Tomato picking, selecting, boxing, shipping, weighing, storing. Tractor with sowing trailer.
3. Potato picking machine, workers. Building a silo [?]. Potatoes in storage.