The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Aerial views of forest from helicopter. Workers prepare bins of seeds [?]. Helicopter releases bin over clearing. Various shots of the process. Dispensing weed-killing herbicide [?] by various methods, including hand-pushed dispenser, sprayer, tractor or truck sprayer, etc. Fruit picking. Fruit being treated [?] and selected, placed in bins, stacked and weighed.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Device used for pruning in orchards. Checking bud formations. Tractor pulling sprayer for weed control. In Vernon, district horticulturalist examines the bud formation on a branch. Apple picking; loading filled bins onto a truck. Cider making. Beehives. Collecting pollen from beehives with a pollen trap; selecting, cleaning, measuring and bagging [pollen?] for human consumption. Adding frames to the hives. The brood frame. Feeder bees, drones, a queen bee. Beekeeper working with hives. Label: "Silver Star Apiaries, Vernon, B.C."

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)