Digging potatoes along Stratford Road in the 19303.

A successful local farmer was Frank Clarke, who married W.K. Rogers’ daughter Pauline and did general farming where the Rogers’ Kinlock Fox Ranch had been. They raised swine and beef cattle, and also grew potatoes.

At one time Mr. Clarke was the Island’s largest producer of potatoes. He had the first two-row planter and the first automatic digger. Mr. Clarke also used the first beater to kill potato tops and also designed the first potato-grader with protective chains, built by Hall & Stafford in Summerside.

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Poultry Farming C i a r K ’53:

Frank and Pauline Clarke’s daughter Margaret married William Wood and obtained the Kinlock Farm from Mrs. Rogers. About 1955 Bill and Margaret started a small poultry business supplying one restaurant in Charlottetown with fresh chicken. Demand for their product gradually grew until the government stepped in saying this type of business required more space and better sanitary conditions. So in 1963 Kinlock Poultry Farm opened a larger plant processing about 400 birds per week for Island markets. Once again the demand grew, and in 1970 Kinlock Poultry Farms was incorporated. With financial help from Industrial Enterprises, a large modern plant was constructed capable of processing 4,000 to 5,000 birds

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