Earle MacDonald, Bryce Clark, Alan Robinson, Ralph Dawson, Wen le and Gerald MacFadyen. All farmers in the district grow potatoes, b1; not all have storage houses.

The largest potato producer in this area is the firm of Eric B01; inson, Inc., whose acreage of potatoes in this year of 1973 is app101 imately 1040 acres. This firm also owns several large warehouses, 011. of which covers one acre of land and holds about three hundred and f ft; (350) carloads of potatoes. The company also has a packaging plant, tl, es- buildings being located in Albany. About fifty-five (55) people are 911‘ ployees of this firm. ‘

Besides the large acreage of potatoes, approximately seven hunt 1'1

(700) acres of grain are grown annually. 1

LIME KILN .

On the east side of the Augustine Cove bridge near the foo: 1: the Carruthers’ lane was a lime—kiln —- not evident now. These lime 11111 had a very specific purpose for the land in early days. 1

A means utilized by Island farmers to make up for the lime d‘vi ficiency in the soil was the “burning” of limestone. This stone, usrall transported as ballast by Island boats returning from Nova Scotia, 112:2 subjected to tremendous heat in the limestone “kilns” especially construc ed for this purpose. These kilns usually consisted of an excavation ill conveniently near the shorebank with an imposing cover or superstruc 11113 of great rocks which were cut and shaped in some nearly sandsto‘t quarry. After having been “burned” in the kiln with heat from c0311 hardwood, the stone was placed in small piles across the fields. The:e piles were covered with earth and the dampness from the covering ca 159} the limestone to‘ Hslacken’, that is, it crumbled or disintegrated so tht it could be spread by shovel on the land. Sometimes this process 11: c hurried by pouiing water on the burned stone. These lime,o tone liillt varied in construction and size, but some of the more impressive View h least as large as a small house, and while most of them have disappe.11‘€t a few still remain.

It is believed that the limestone used in the above mentioned kit in Augustine Cove, may have been ballast from the “Miramichi”, v hlt t was a ship owned and operated by Capt. Alexander MacFadyen. For solo years in the 1880’s and 1890’s he transported cargoes of grain, pot 1t0 etc from RE I. to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick He operated 0-11

the port of Cape Traverse. a: 0: FOX FARMING (11

Prince Edward Island’s fox industry began as far back as 18

when the first foxes were dug out of the ground with a View to ranchls] them. R

The first record of successful breeding of foxes in captivity Canada comes from Tignish in the late 1870’s, but none of the litters 3‘} vived. Between 1887 and 1898 continuous experiments were conducted In two men at Alberton and Tignish and a litter of silver foxes was ra}°m to maturity in 1894. In 1896 these two men, Oulton and Dalton, .1011

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