3 Almost every farmer had enough hens to supply

_ their household with eggs and meat. Often, there igwould be some eggs to sell; either to a local store, fi‘or a peddler with an egg wagon. This money was

i mostly used by the housewife to buy her groceries.

POTATOES

The first record of potatoes grown on the island was in l77l. The first potato sets were planted between the stumps in the spring and dug with a fork in the fall. The settlers cleared some land and ploughed between the stumps with a short one handled plough share and coulter locked

together. There were no potato bugs and very little blight.

A few years passed, then potatoes were planted after the plough about one foot apart, planting every third furrow. Between the rows was kept scuffled. When the tops grew bigger, mold boards were placed on the scuffler in place of the two

back teeth, which were removed and the potatoes hilled up.

Potato bugs arrived and Paris Green was used to kill them. in the fall the potatoes were dug with a plough. The first potato grader on the Island was made by Thomas and Harry Schurman.

The first Tuber Unit Machine built in P. E. l., was built and designed by Claude and Glen Ramsay. The elevator digger was invented with a picker behind it. Now many use a combine and bulk tanks. The potatoes now are sprayed for weeds, blight,

bUQs and beetles. Potatoes grown today are many varieties: Irish Cobbler, Maclntyre, Sebago, Green Mountain, Kathadin, Chipawas, Kennebec, Pontiac. Probably the Sebago is the most popular.

GRAIN

The ground was prepared for grain planting With wooden toothed harrows. The farmer carried the seed grain in a basket hung over his shoulder, and threw the seeds over the ground.

The sickle was used to harvest the grain when

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