The Bernards , Campbells and Howatts used scows in Summer but it was laborious work to handle the mud so often before it reached the land. The Long River men decided to cut a large cake of ice, slightly wedge shape and float it up over the bed and secure the back of it to the good ice, two acres would support six diggers; there was no use trying this at low tide but at the full of the moon and high tides they could hope for a weeks dragging before the low tides would break up the cake on the high hummocks. Help to cut the cake was not a problem. An ice cutter drawn by a horse could cut down part way and men with saws would finish up the job. At high tide a stumping ma¬ chine was used to pull the cake into position and when securely tied it would freeze fast to the side of the good ice; the hole left behind would be well bushed for safety. One digger could load 60 to 80 sleighs a day, the usual charge at this date was 20 cents for a single sleigh and 35 for a team load, teams were not allowed on the cake in mild weather and single sleighs had to wait their turn; every precaution was taken to save the cake, even then a few got in but only one horse was lost. Farmers living near the river hauled the mud onto their fields and spread it on but others landed thousands of loads at the head of the rivers and creeks and hauled it home later. About 1935 crushed limestone was brought in from New Bruns¬ wick and the same results could be obtained with much less work. The last mud was dug in 1940. Gone are the good old days of mud digging, the tang of the new mud, the frosty grid of steel shoeing on hard ice, the squeak of capstans, the smell of tea brewing in iron kettles over hard wood coals, at the phychological moment Dan Campbell would lay a green spruce bough laden with gum on the red coals, the aroma of which would bring the men running to get a cup of the best brewed tea in the British Empire, if you doubt this statement ask Life Howatt or Louie Fitzsimmons . No sleeping pills or tonics needed in those days when men took time to meet and know their neighbors for miles around. It is doubtful if this plan of cutting acres of ice and floating it over open beds of mud has ever been used on this Island or elsewhere. The first cake cut and used in this way was on the upper bed in 1895. POTATOES In the early days when potatoes were scarce the peelings were saved in the winter or some people cut the seed end off the potato and used the rest for food, these peelings or seed ends were hoed into the ground around the stumps in the Spring and mounded up with the 20