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The item is a b&w film documentary from the 1920s. "Depicts the harvesting of peas, almost all mechanically, from cutting to processing, showing automatic shucker and sorting by girls." (Colin Browne)

The item is a b&w documentary film from the 1920s. "Harvesting grain by tractor. Stooks. Threshing by "gas power" -- thresher driven by a belt from the tractor. Sacking grain. Trucks taking it away. Sacks being loaded into CP boxcars. Train pulls out and passes acres of hops being picked. Hop pickers weighing their baskets. Two-horse load of hops. Scenes of workers' camp, nurse, community newspaper, kid's playground. Hops unloaded at processing plant. Hop-curing sheds. Dairy barn. Tobacco-drying sheds at Sumas. Tobacco harvesting, curing. Ploughing match at Chilliwack. Two-horse teams and tractors." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film made in the 1920s or 1930s. It shows views around Oliver, B.C., cantaloupe planting and other horticultural activities and local people.

The item is a comedy film short from the 1920s. The story of a magician who displeases his audience.

The item is a film reel containing five short film items from the 1920s and the 1940s, spliced together onto a single reel:

1. Various shots of Bouchie Lake Fair, 1948.
2. Treating seed grain -- C.I.L., Shows Mr. T. Leach demonstrating how seed grain is treated chemically to prevent harm to it during germination, 194-.
3. Sheep shearing contest, Willows, Victoria, BC, Scenes include men shearing sheep, 192-.
4. Grading and packing apples -- Vancouver Winter Fair, 1928.
5. Gardens, flowers and ornamental shrubs, 194-.

The item is a reel of animated film from the 1920s. Snap the gingerbread man is featured in "Hindu magic" and "Climbing the alps".

The item is a reel of documentary film from the 1920s. "The film examines pea production, from rolling, cultivating, disking and fertilizing the field to crop dusting with a biplane, seeding and harvesting. Much of the field work is done with horses, some with a tractor. Peas are dumped onto a conveyor belt at a barn, mechanically shucked, poured into wooden boxes and sorted by girls in white caps. Cows in a field and being milked in a barn, probably at Frasea Farms. Men (Agriculture inspectors?) drink milk from bottles beside a car. A sign on the roof of the car reads Frasea Farms." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film from the 1920s. "Seeds being culled, cleaned, planted and nurtured on Experimental Farm, probably near Sidney. Later, men in suits examine various types of grain being grown on the farm, all named with signs: 'Western,' 'Garnet,' 'Manchurian,' 'Victory,' etc. Pan across farm and fields." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film from the 1920s. "Students are shown field crops, fall-sown oats, Jersey cows, poultry incubator, tulips. An 'Alfresco lunch' is provided by the farm at long tables outside. Minister of Agriculture W. Atkinson and Deputy Minister J.B. Munro and their wives join them for lunch. Minister makes a speech. The VIP's size up the crops and pose with their wives. They inspect the bees and the grapes in the greenhouses. Mr. Toomer, the gardener, in greenhouse. Pan of the Dominion Experimental Station. Vancouver Island Horticultural Association is entertained by the superintendent at outdoor tables for lunch and speeches at Sidney. The advantages of paper mulch demonstrated. Various shots of Horticultural Association group." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film made sometime between 1923 and 1939. It shows the proper procedures for profitable production and marketing of Canadian wool.

The item is an instructional film in two reels:
"Part One deals with the initial stages of growing and training an apple tree, and shows the steps taken from cross-pollination to seed selection and on to budding, pruning and top working. Part Two begins with bridge grafting and then shows entomologists in the laboratory studying insects that attack fruit trees. The various life stages of the codling moth are examined and explained. A horse-drawn spray unit moves through an orchard in British Columbia. The need for three and four applications of spray are explained and the stages at which it must be done. Scene of a spray and dust manufacturing plant. Blossom time in Quebec. Cultivating around the bottom of the trees to prevent the moisture being sapped by weeds. A grass mulch around the base of trees. Wire protectors around the trunk to discourage mice from eating the bark. Scenes of irrigation works in British Columbia, showing sluices, flumes, etc., costing about $14.00 per acre-foot. Thinning fruit in July, remaining apples left about six inches apart. Ripe apple in sunlight. Much of this film was shot on an experimental farm, probably in Ottawa." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film made between 1927 and 1929. "shows scenes on a large professional poultry farm in British Columbia with many views of the barns, sheds, pullets, feeding and ranging hens. There are shots of champion Layers contributing over 300 eggs per year. The finale is an idyllic porch scene with the poultry farmer's family sitting in the warm evening surrounded by lovely gardens and neighbours, and watching a sunset over the sea." (Colin Browne)

The item is a b&w documentary film from ca. 1928. "The Poultry Inspector from the British Columbia Department of Agriculture visits Rose Comb Red Farm and inspects their hens, chicks, cows, pigs and bees. He also visits a Boy's and Girl's Poultry Club in Grindrod, where the school principal has been instrumental in establishing such clubs. Later he visits another mixed farm and looks over 600 Barred Rock chicks. He marks and culls the 'slow featherers' and Looks over the pigs and cows. There is also a [long shot] of the 40-acre orchard." (Colin Browne)

The series consists of films created or acquired by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and its predecessor agencies, between 1928 and ca. 1981.

The agencies responsible for creating the films are:
Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 1980-1981
Ministry of Agriculture, 1976-1980
Dept. of Agriculture, 1928-1976

The item is a reel of documentary film from 1928. "Scenes include Manager and office staff of the New Westminster Fair. A young boy travelling to the fair on a toy horse and sulky. Decorated teams of six horses, each hauling large wooden carts with proud drivers to the fair-grounds. Two of the carts are: "Ruby Stock Farms -- Portland Oregon" and "Mainland Transfer Co. Ltd." Scenes of Clydesdale horses, an Ayrshire bull, a Guernsey bull, a Jersey bull, a Holstein cow, an Ayrshire bull and a small model bull-pen. A prize-winning Tamworth boar among several other boars and sows. Winners of best sheep breeds shown and named. Sheep dog demonstration. Mountain lambs, controlled by dog. B.C. honey display --stacks of bottles in display booth, First Prize shown." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film from 1928. "Illustrates the method of cultivating strawberries from clearing the land to planting, tending, harvesting, packing, crating and trucks driving away with fruit to the Saanich Fruit Growers Association shed at Keating, B.C. Scenes include: A visit of the District Horticulturist. Laying straw before fruiting. Good [close-up of] labels on crates: 'Victoria Strawberries.' Pose by groups of pickers before tents -- 'tired and hungry.' Good shot of fruit being delivered to Saanich Fruit Growers Association's shed at Keating. The manager of the Association helping to nail and sort crates of berries. Dominion Government inspectors at work opening crates and checking. Grower's book being signed. Berries leaving Association shed in trucks for pre-cooling shed and jam factory." (Colin Browne)

The item is a b&w documentary film reel from 1928. "Cleaning up, burning and ploughing land in readiness for planting. Levelling soil before sowing with one-horse drag. Sowing fine seed with hand sower. [Close-up of] demonstration of sowing. Planting lettuce sets for seed. Sowing sweet peas. A month later -- plants up. Flailing garden peas with a hand flail after they've been brought in by a horse-drawn wagon. Dwarf beans, lettuce and radish. Pan across flower-seed farm. Picking, screening and drying. Dahlia seeds. Picking sweet pea seed. Turning, fanning, screening and sacking seed. Rows of onions lying on the ground and being picked. Several pans across field and out over ocean. There is no indication of where this was photographed, but the Saanich Peninsula seems likely." (Colin Browne)

The item is a b&w reel of instructional film from 1929 which shows the production of leather goods.

The item is a documentary film from ca. 1929 on three reels:
"Reel one: A day in the life of a Cow Testing Association Supervisor from Chilliwack. Cow testing shown in every detail and its results explained to the farmer being visited by the Supervisor. All the results are marked in a book for future reference, such as weight of milk given, butterfat content, etc. The Supervisor moves on to the next farm.
Reel two: This film is concerned with Jersey cows and shows how conformation and good looks don't necessarily make a good milker. It is impossible to tell butterfat content from looking at a cow. A little drama is staged: "Mr. Byer" and "Mr. Sellar" do a little cow trading. Sellar at first balks at the higher priced cow, not the one he fancies, but is convinced to take her, once he sees her Cow Testing Association records. Mr. G. F. Thornberry, Assistant-in-Charge of Cow Testing Association, standing talking to the two farmers.
Reel three: Cow Testing Association picnic at Coldstream Ranch near Vernon. President W.R. Powley speaks. W.F. Kennedy, MLA. for Vernon, speaks. Professor Boving of UBC speaks about Feed Evaluations. J.W. Berry, MLA, President of BC Dairyman's Association, tells jokes. Views of good sires the other important factor, besides testing, in dairy herd improvement. Shot of Dairy Commissioner Mr. H. Rome. This reel may not have been shown on occasion, the first two being the most important." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of b&w documentary film from 1929. "Opening ceremony of the Seventeenth Parliament of British Columbia. Shot of War Memorial and Empress Hotel from west wing. Highlanders march past, band, soldiers in front of buildings. Dignitaries arriving. Lieutenant-Governor [R.R. Bruce] inspects Guard of Honour. Group of Cabinet Ministers in top hats. The Premier, Dr. S. F. Tolmie. Minister of Agriculture, Hon. William Atkinson. Children celebrate 24th of May at Parliament Buildings. Parliament Buildings greenhouse. Head gardener checking plants in greenhouse. Plants in cold frames. Bedding summer plants. Grooming beds. Sprinklers on lawns. Mowing back lawns of Parliament Buildings. Correct way of packing tulips for market demonstrated." (Colin Browne)

The item is a documentary film in two reels. Tobacco growing, curing and processing at the Totem Plantation, Sumas Prairie, BC. "Identical to TOBACCO GROWING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, except that the opening shots present a picture of the McKercher Company executives and give a plug for the company. Nowhere on this print is the British Columbia Dept. of Agriculture mentioned, although the government may have produced the film. Perhaps McKercher's put up the money, or some of it." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of instructional film from 1929 showing the production of linen from flax.

The item is a reel of documentary film from ca. 1929. "Hop growing near Sumas in the Fraser Valley, sixty miles east of Vancouver. White and Indian workers. The film shows hop cultivation from early shoots until the hops, picked and threshed in a warehouse, are sacked and loaded onto a truck. Each step is thoroughly explained and depicted. A good film." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of instructional film from 1929. It depicts the production of woolen goods, by manual labour and mechanical means.

The item is a promotional film from 1929 on two reels. "Depicts the growing, curing and processing of tobacco at the Totem Tobacco plantation owned by McKercher's Ltd. at Sumas Prairie.
Reel one: shows employees' dwellings, shack-like barracks, readying the field for the crop and fertilizing the soil. The seedlings are shown in the greenhouse, being transplanted and being planted out. Growth at stages of four to six weeks is shown. Workers top the plants and pinch out the suckers. 30-40 days after the topping, the plants are picked by the split-stalk method and hung over wooden laths to dry.
Reel two: shows plants being loaded onto horse-drawn wagons and taken back to kilns where the curing begins. After curing, the leaves are taken to the processing plant, graded and sorted and steam processed. The leaves are then baled and driven off to the factory in a truck. The employees return to work after lunch. This very good film shows every step as it is carried out over a season, all the buildings, sheds and processing areas required, as well as interesting vignettes of the employees and their living conditions." (Colin Browne)

The item is a b&w answer print of a documentary film from 1929. "'A bird's-eye view of our Okanagan fruit section.' Long Lake, on way to Kelowna from Vernon by train. Storefront window (Kelowna?) of Department of Agriculture, Horticultural Branch, office. A shipping point on Okanagan Lake -- wharves, buildings, ferry dock. Vineyards, irrigation systems. Orchard without irrigation, and with flume and furrow irrigating. Alfalfa growing in orchard to help crop. Horse-drawn spraying of fruit trees. Tank-truck with arsenate of lead and sprayers. Codling moth traps pulled up into trees, buckets of poison. Banding trees against codling moths. Thinning pears and plums. Wire screen protectors around base of tree to deter mice. Greenhouses. Family life -- kids, mother, car and dog in the Okanagan." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of b&w film footage from 1930. "Totally concerned with a livestock parade of cattle being led past camera by various men." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film from the 1930s. "A bulb digger 'which will dig 5 tons of bulbs an hour with an average crop of 8 tons per acre' clears a field. Men harvesting alfalfa. Stacked alfalfa is heaped onto a wagon. Alfalfa is baled. A man in a test kitchen prepares something with milk & bacterial culture and a seed. View of farm and fields. This might be the Experimental Farm at Sidney." (Colin Browne)

The item is a 16 mm b&w, silent documentary film from the 1930s. It is about poultry raising.

The item is a reel of educational film from the 1930s. It is an account of the importance of the horse to man, from the time of the Creation to pioneer America.