Down on the Farm Down on the farm about half past four I jump into my britches and out the door Out to the barn I run like the dickens, To milk ten cows and feed all the chickens Clean out the barn, curry Nancy and Jiggs Separate the cream and slop all the pigs Work for two hours then eat like a turk And by heck' I'm ready for a full days work' Then I grease the wagon and put on the rack, Throw a jug of water in an old grain sack, Hitch up the horses, hustle down the lane - Must get the hay in, for it looks like rain. Look over yonder' Sure as l's born, Cattle on the rampage and cows in the corn' Start across the medder, run a mile or two Heaving like I'm wind-broke, get wet clear through Get back to the horses, then for recompense Nancy gets a straddle of the barbed-wire fence Joints all a-aching and muscles in a jerk Work all summer till winter is nigh, Then figure up the books and heave a big sigh Got less cash now than I had last spring Now, some people tell us that there ain't no hell, But they never farmed, so how can they tell But spring rolls around, I take another chance While the fringes grow longer on my old gray pants Give my s'spenders a hitch, my belt another jerk And by heck' I'm ready for a full year's work. Submitted by Jesse Burns FOX CATCHER If there were more natives of P.E.I , like Mr. Fred Reeves of Lower Freetown , there would be no sense of anyone employing a hound to hunt escaped silver foxes. About two years ago Mr. Reeves saw a black fox near the road at his place. Instead of thinking where to obtain the services of the nearest hound, he stripped off to the waist and gave chase, being rewarded at the end of a half hours run by catching the errant reynard, by the brush. The other day, another fox running in the same district eluded a large crowd of excited pursuers. Later, Mr. Reeves saw a fox, no doubt the same one, setting up in one of his fields. Without stripping off this time, the weather being far from mild, he gave chase and again took his quarry by the tail after a sprint of a little over half a mile. The crowd that had been chasing the animal later claimed it as their prize and took possession, but not before Mr. Reeves had noted the tattoo marks. With the evidence, he came to Summerside and by the records at the Fox Breeders Association found the fox was the property of Mr. Alban Lecky of Bedeque who established his ownership, recovered the truant and publicly rewarded Mr. Reeves . 12 Jan. 1930 Submitted by Helen Stowell THE DEVELOPMENT OF RADIO ON There is no doubt that radio has had a profound effect on life styles and life's pleasures for Islanders. It all began in 1901 when Marconi succeeded in transmitting a wireless signal from , Newfoundland , to Cornwall , England . Then in 1906, Reginald Fessenden , a Canadian working for Edison developed the first wireless voice broadcast. Prince Edward Island was introduced to radio in the early days when it became a vital form of communication for the safety of shipping. It was not long before the young and eager minds of a few Islanders were doing their own pioneering. Keith Rogers was among the first to operate an amateur radio station and he later owned and operated CFCY. F. Walter Hyndman another of the first amateurs, later became 157