per day. Day—old chicks were purchased from a registered hatchery and fed until ready for market. This was the only registered killing plant on P.E.I. There were 2.4 full- and part-time people employed at this plant with 40,000 to 65,000 birds on the farm at any time, supplying about one-third of the Island’s fresh chicken market. In 1979 Kinlock Poultry Farms was forced out of business by the dumping of poultry from outside the province at prices lower than it could be produced here.

The Burke Gardens

Approximately 1880, James and Mary Burke of Alexandra moved to Southport, to the home formerly owned by James’ brother Walter Burke. They had four children at the time and eight more were born after that. The

youngest son, Ernest, is still living in Southport.

James was a market gardener (as listed in the Atlas of 1880) who took his produce to the Market in Charlottetown. When he died in 1895, his son Arthur, at the age of 16, took over the business and the property. He con— tinued on with it until 1930.

Ernest started going to the Market with his brother in 1907, at the age of 15. He married Della P.Clark in 1919, and built a home on the property

Ernest Burke