over. There was a glass in the end to look into to see when the butter was ready. This was much easier to use than the crock churn. The excess milk was then used for making curds cottage cheese, or fed to the calves. The unpasteurized cream and butter were very readily accepted on the market and by farm patrons, but it was not easily preserved. The butter industry could not develop very rapidly with such a system of manufacturing. It was not until cream pasteurization came to PEI in 1916 that the butter manufacturing business developed to the point where it is now. Some of the butter and cheesemakers of Orwell Cove were John A. Murchison , William Brown , and Faber Dreelan. Another industry that was of interest to the residents of Orwell Cove was fox farming. Fox farming was started on Prince Edward Island in 1888, and by 1913, the pelts were being sold as far away as London, England . The largest boom in fox breeding on Prince Edward Island began around 1910 and proved to be the most exciting period in fox farming. During this time span, the pelt of a black or red fox sold for around $100 00 and a silver fox pelt for $1000.00. William Dreelan and Edward Mornssey were two of the fur traders in the area. In the spring, after a light snowfall, some people would follow fox tracks to the den and dig out the cubs and take them home to raise. Others were caught by traps and other means. These foxes were kept in an underground den for a time, because the early ranchers felt the fox needed to burrow into the ground to remain healthy and to produce a good fur. Later they discovered that the foxes could be kept in pens or fox houses The fox house was usually 3'x4', with an exercising pen that was completely surrounded by fox wire. The pens were usually surrounded by an 8 -10' high fence that was sunk about three feet in the ground. A high observation tower was built to watch the foxes breeding. Some of the fox ranchers in Orwell Cove were as follows: James Morrissey , Dan R. MacDonald , Wilfred MacLean , Alexander Anderson , James Nicholson , Irving Nicholson , and Capt. T. Craig . Sometimes a mother cat raised the cubs until they were able to 24