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Fall harvest: Raymond Wood is seated at the controls of the tractor powered digger. His son, George, and helper, Dorothy Stevenson Quigley and Raymond’s wife, Adelaide, stand on the picker and remove the potato tops, stones, clods and weeds from the potatoes as they are elevated to fall into the bags that are being hung on the back of the digger by Raymond’s daughter, Joyce.]oyce removes me full bags and places them in a row on the ground by the digger. The digging crew later returns to lift and pile the bags on a sloven, a low trailer with large back wheels and low front wheels. The sloven is hauled to the house where the bags are emptied onto a chute that carries them through the port holes that open into the house cellar. The potatoes will be sprouted, graded and bagged by the family during the winter months as they are sold. Adelaide Wood collection.

Cattle Drives

for sport and pleas— ure. All these changes have revo- lutionized farm

life.

Mussel mud, which horses hauled by the

wagon or sleigh load from the Tryon River, has been replaced by commercial fertil- izer and lime. Ani- mal manure is still spread on the land. Farm produce, at one time hauled by horse and sleigh, wrapped in buffalo robes in winter, and loaded by hand either on the boats in Victoria or

/ the railway cars in

Albany, is now stacked on pallets and then loaded by a fork—lift onto re- frigerated tractor trailers at the ware house door.

The annual sale of a few cattle and sheep was an important source of cash for the farmer in the 1800s. The animals to be marketed were gathered into herds and driven, on the hoof, to Charlottetown. The herders took the route that went through the least number of villages and was most direct. Often there were no fences for miles so many hands were needed to help along the way. This 30 mile drive, usually by way of the Old Tryon Road, which today would be described as a dag path, required a team effort on the part of the farmer and his family. The Old Tryon Road route is marked on the 1880 Atlas, passing through

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