always more customers than the hatchery could supply. I believe it was in the early seventies when Mrs. Roberts and Chuck became involved in selling turkey poults and gradually became more involved in raising a flock on their own farm for Thanksgiving and Christmas markets. This was, of course, in addition to a large flock of fattened geese and ducks for the holiday market. The Tryon Hatchery during this period was the largest registered waterfowl hatchery in Canada . In my experiences there were never any com¬ plaints from her customers concerning quality or service. Mrs. Roberts spent many long hours gathering setting and hatching waterfowl eggs, as well as all the cleaning and other duties that are required. In the seventies Mrs. Roberts also became involved in hatching and selling meat type and egg laying strains of poultry. Her many customers soon discovered that she had chicks for sale and this part of her operation grew quite rapidly. She sold young chicks to customers all over the area. Mrs. Roberts also became involved in brooding turkey poults and chickens each spring for a week or two before selling to her customers. This grew rapidly and she sold many thousands of started birds annually. In the mid seventies Mrs. Roberts purchased modern incubators and disposed of her outdated ones. This was a great advantage to her business until approximately 1984, when due to ill health she did not hatch any birds on her own farm but purchased all her requirements from large mainland hatcheries. About 1980, Mrs. Roberts sold her waterfowl breeding stock and concen¬ trated on supplying only turkey poults, meat, and egg laying chickens to her customers. Mrs. Roberts has not operated her hatchery in the past two years and has also discontinued raising her own large flock of turkeys and meat birds for the fall market. Her activities in the past two years were confined to supplying started turkey poults and day old chickens to her many customers during the spring and summer season. In spite of some reduction in her work, her business has continued to grow. Chuck retired from the mill and is helping Mrs. Roberts with her chicken business. Although health has been a problem for both of them, they have continued to do what they enjoyed best in supplying top quality turkey poults and chickens to hundreds of customers in the area. Mrs. Roberts and Chuck have come very close to selling their operation this year, but their enthusiasm and deep love for their life long business has been too strong. Following a fall and winter holiday in Ottawa, they will be back in Tryon in April 1987 to start another busy poultry season. Mrs. Roberts also took a keen interest in a number of Island poultry organizations such as the following: Broiler Marketing Board, Egg Marketing Board, Hatchery Association, Atlantic Provinces Hatchery Federation, and the Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture. I hope this information will be some help for you and I hope Mrs. Roberts will be given serious consideration by the selection committee. I do not expect 27