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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 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 colour documentary film from the 1930s, about the production of cauliflower crops.

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 film footage from 1930 containing the following three dcoumentaries:
Checking up on farm loan prospects: "Officials, including George Sangster, Chairman of the Farm Loan Board and Mat Hassen, local appraiser, looking over farm buildings and discussing loan with farmer. Obviously the loan is clinched because officials shake hands with the farmer at their car, smiling. This little film seems intended to assure farmers about receiving a fair shake when applying for a government loan."

Picnic, Dominion Experimental Farm, Summerland, Okanagan, June 3rd 1930: "Trucks and cars arriving. Kids' running races, sack races and wheelbarrow races. Carpenter's competition -- ladies' nail-hampering contest (into a thick beam). Mr. Leek, President of the Vancouver Exhibition Association, and Mrs. Leek, Mr. Matheson, Manager and Secretary, and Mrs. Matheson, posing. Crowds. An old timer, John Treffry of Summerland, with a long white beard. Pan of countryside from railway bridge [crossing Trout Creek]. People walking across trestle; long drop to the bottom of the chasm. Pan across Experimental Farm grounds. Farmers try their hand at gold. Small group watches as train crosses trestle. Mr. Hunter, Superintendent of the Experimental Farm, poses with a cow. Stock-judging demonstrations. $2000.00 cow owned by a man in the district. Poses with Dr. Knight, Livestock Commissioner. Pan of lake with cars in [foreground] across the fields."

Scenes on the way from Penticton to Princeton: "This footage was possibly shot while returning from a picnic at Summerland Experimental Farm in June 1930. Keremeos passes by the window. Concentrator at Hedley Gold Mine and cable. Young shepherd from Inverness, Scotland, and his dog. The dog rounds up sheep. Shorthorn herd of Mr. Taylor, Princeton. His irrigation ditch and flume. Gold hunters in dry creek bed -- one holds up fake gold. Beaver dam. Scenes on William Thompson's sheep farm near Merritt, sheep being driven into pens for shearing. From L to R: Mr. Munro, Deputy Minister of Agriculture; Mr. Davie; Dr. Knight, Livestock Commissioner; Mr. Patterson and Mr. Challenger; Mr. Halmer, manager of Nicola Lake Ranching Co.; Mr. Brodie, a prospective settler from Australia."
(Colin Browne)

"An in-depth look at the problem of knapweed in B.C. and the different controls in use, including biological methods. Knapweed is a serious threat to rangeland in our province, and the experts in this film offer a realistic view of the future effect on agriculture." [Catalogue description, "Audio-Visual Catalogue," Ministry of Agrculture and Food 1986]