and put the fence up in a zig-zag manner. A little later, three poles were spiked to the posts and a couple of strands of barbed wire were put on top. Soon, woven-wire fencing was used. One man was asked why he didn’t put up a wire fence. His answer was: “I can grow poles, but I can’t grow wire.”

> One of Clinton’s residents, Leslie Woodside, was agent for Woven-wire fencing for years.

There is not as much fencing done now as in bygone days, for with modern machinery and especially on larger farms, it is much easier to work a large field. Electric fences are the latest kind of fence and can easily be moved from one place to another.

POTATO GROWING

As in most parts of P.E.I., potatoes always grew well, even on new farms. After trees were cut, tubers could be planted among the stumps with a grub hoe and the plants did well, enriched by the potash left from the burning of the brush. There was neither late blight nor Colorado potato beetles in early times, so that the plants needed little attention. The excellent quality of the potato Was soon recognized and we acquired the name of Spud Island. Later, samples were tested and fields were inspected and, in 1918, P.E..I was the first in Canada to ship seed potatoes.

, After the fields were cleared, potatoes were planted by hand, and the digging was done with a plough. The pickers had to pull the stalks and try to get all the tubers they could. After this pro- ®ss, the land was harrowed or sometimes raked, which uncovered more spuds and these were also picked. Later came diggers of sev- eral types and, in recent years, the potato harvester which em- pgloys about six laborers. Before trucks or tractors came into being, the potatoes were hauled from the field with horses and carts, and igle pickers dumped their potatoes into the carts from their baskets. ter, potato sacks were scattered along the row. These were tlled by the pickers and a couple of men with a team of horses , d a low wagon would gather the bags of potatoes. This method Vgas replaced by the harvester and automatic trucks that require ry little handling of the potatoes. All this modern machinery Every expensive so that, instead of every farmer growing a few 3' res of potatoes, a few farmers grow from fifty to several hun- ged acres. As is general in farm products, supply and demand Qwern prices received, and our older residents well remember the Dglces they received in the latter years of the First World War. AIS much as $3 per bushel was paid at that time.

3 DAIRYING Many Changes have taken place in the dairy industry since 031‘ early settlers came. No doubt the number of cattle in our com—

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