Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, biography and certificates of C.A. Zavitz, 1883-1992. 1883- 1992, 2004.

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Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, biography and certificates of C.A. Zavitz, 1883-1992. 1883- 1992, 2004.

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Also includes two second year (1886) prize books for Mathematics and Book Keeping ("Switzerland, its Mountains and Valleys" by W. Raden) and Agriculture and Live Stock (Webster's Dictionary, 1885); copies of "Short Notes on Veterinary Medicine for the Use of Students at the O.A.C." by J. Hugo Reed, "What the Rocks Reveal or Geology Simplified" by J. Hoyes Panton and "The Book of Discipline of the Religious Society of Friends", 1929; Robertson Associate Award medal, 1933; World's Grain Exhibition and Conference, Regina pin, 1933; 3 handwritten notebooks of agronomic recorded experiments; copy of 7th annual report of the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm, 1881; copy of coloured print of "A Bird's Eye View of the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm"; minutes of meetings of the Committee on Experiments of the Experimental Union, 1886-1891, with names and addresses of experimenters.

3 boxes, 1 unboxed v.

University of Guelph. McLaughlin Library

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Zavitz, Charles A. (Charles Ambrose), 1863-1942

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Charles Ambrose Zavitz (1863–1942, born Coldstream, Ontario) was born in 1863 into a family that was a combination of both Quakers and United Empire Loyalists. Upon graduation in 1886 from the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario, the college hired him as a junior chemist, promoted him in 1888 to Assistant Superintendent of Experiments, and again in 1904 to head the new department of Field Husbandry. Zavitz revitalized the Ontario Agricultural and Experimental Union. "By 1924 mo...

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Ontario Agricultural College. Experimental Dept.

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Raden, Woldemar

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Robertson, James Wilson, 1857-1930

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Ontario Agricultural College. Students. (1884-1888 : Zavitz)

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Quirk, Laura, 1963-

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C. A. Zavitz Collection (University of Guelph)

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Charles Zavitz recorded the first yield tests on cereal grains at Guelph in 1887. He was the first to introduce soybeans to Canada and made it a commercial crop. He also established alfalfa as a premier forage crop. The Robertson Associate Award was inaugurated in 1931 as a memorial to Dr. James W. Robertson, founder and first president of the Canadian Seed Growers' Association. From the description of Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, biography and certificates of C....

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Panton, J. Hoyes (James Hoyes), 1847-1898

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Ontario Agricultural College. Dept. of Field Husbandry. (1888-1927 : Zavitz)

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Canadian Seed Growers' Association

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Reed, J. Hugo

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