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Chickens that normally sold for 14 to 30 cents a lb. sold for 6 to 13 cents a lb. Eggs that usually sold for 35 to 40 cents a dozen were selling for 20 to 25 cents a dozen.

Potatoes that sold for 50 to 65 cents a cwt. were selling for 20 to 30 cents a cwt. Animal hides that sold for 6 cents a lb. sold for 1 cent a 1b.

3 Pork that normally sold for 9 to 15 cents a lb. was selling for 2 1/2 to 3 cents a lb.

Salt fish that sold for 3 cents a lb. was selling for 1 to 1 1/2 cents a lb.

This is evident in this ad published by a local Elmsdale store:

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Island Farmer, November 2, 1932

Wages were $15.00 to $20.00 for a month’s hard labour on farms because the farmer received low prices for his produce. One labourer said he worked on a farm for $150.00 a year. There were no modern conveniences such as tractors. The farmers walked all day following a team of horses behind a plow or harrows or whatever

farm machinery was needed at the time to till the soil.

Christmas festivities had a damper put on them as well. Santa could not afford much to put in the well-worn homespun stockings hung by the fireplace. The best of the

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