Arthur Hughes T1 [Tape One]

Interview

Thompson, Reg "Dutch"

Hughes, Arthur

0000-00-00

01:34:57

This interview is with Arthur Hughes talking about eggs saving farms because they are good for bartering, the family farm, cattle and cows, differences in growing potatoes, picking and spraying them, the first fertilizers, growing wheat, horses, apple orchards, the Milligan and Morrison race track, fish peddlers, lobster prices and packing, the first tractors and cars, WWI and WWII, the Halifax Explosion, changes in the economy, the Great Depression, and his first trip off the Island.

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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:03:48 Bartering eggs, hen varieties, and Market Square; eggs, bartering, groceries, Market Square. | SIDE A 00:03:48 -- 00:06:03 The family farm in Millcove and changes that have taken place on the farm; livestock, Millcove, cattle, farming. | SIDE A 00:06:03 -- 00:08:02 Cattle breeds and cream; cream, milkman, cattle breeds, milk, Dunstaffnage, butter, co-op, cattle. | SIDE A 00:08:02 -- 00:09:05 Farmers are getting scarce but the farms are getting bigger; cows, cattle, farming, farmers. | SIDE A 00:09:05 -- 00:09:56 Milking cows by hand; milk, cattle, milking. | SIDE A 00:09:56 -- 00:13:05 How potato growing has changed and how it hurts the earth; potatoes, potato farming, pesticides, erosion, potato varieties. | SIDE A 00:13:05 -- 00:14:09 How they used to plant potatoes and when the beater digger first came to PEI; potatoes, beater diggers, farm machinery, potato farming. | SIDE A 00:14:09 -- 00:15:15 Big families and how chores were split up over the family members; big families, chores. | SIDE A 00:15:15 -- 00:16:16 Picking potatoes for 50 cents a day; potato picking, wages. | SIDE A 00:16:16 -- 00:17:00 Bluestone, lyme and arsenic sprays for potatoes; pesticides, lyme, arsenic, Bluestone. | SIDE A 00:17:00 -- 00:18:03 How people shared equipment and sprayers; sprayers, farm machinery. | SIDE A 00:18:03 -- 00:19:12 Yeilds and crop of potatoes; hand dusters, potatoes, crops, potato farming. | SIDE A 00:19:12 -- 00:22:58 How the first fertilizers had to be mixed by hand in the early 1920s and caused pollution in nearby streams; pollution, fertilizer, 1920s. | SIDE A 00:22:58 -- 00:26:14 Growing wheat for flour and gristmills; Robert Thompson, wheat, mills, gristmills, flour, bran, shorts, middling. | SIDE A 00:26:14 -- 00:29:05 The difference between heavy flour and the flour made in roller-mills, wheat varieties, oats and horses; mills, flour, wheat, oats, horses. | SIDE A 00:29:05 -- 00:30:19 Shipping by boat to Newfoundland; shipping, Newfoundland, schooners. | SIDE A 00:30:19 -- 00:32:45 Black oats; oats, black oats, horses. | SIDE A 00:32:45 -- 00:38:35 Apple varieties, orchards, and ciders; apples, fruit, cider, orchards. | SIDE A 00:38:35 -- 00:41:12 Horses and breeding in Charlottetown; horses, horse breeding, Charlottetown, blood horses. | SIDE A 00:41:12 -- 00:42:17 The Milligan and Morrison race track; horse races, race tracks, horse racing, Milligan and Morrison, lights, electricity. | SIDE A 00:42:17 -- 00:44:20 Farm horses and breeding animals; horses, breeding, breed, bulls. | SIDE A 00:44:20 -- 00:46:35 Their ice house and the meat peddler whom he disliked; ice houses, salt, meat peddlers. | SIDE A 00:46:35 -- 00:47:23 Fish peddlers; fish, fish peddlers, tricks. | SIDE A ends at 00:47:23. SIDE B 00:47:30 -- 00:48:09 Lobster prices and packing; lobster, lobster prices, lobster packing. | SIDE B 00:48:09 -- 00:49:44 Fish fertilizer for hobby farms and lobster fertilizer; fish, fertilizer, cats, lobster. | SIDE B 00:49:44 -- 00:51:39 Farmers planting by the moon and other superstitions; pigs, moon, superstition, planting by the moon. | SIDE B 00:51:39 -- 00:54:27 Horses ploughing on the family farm, children's chores, and firewood; horsepower, thrashing, cutting, saws, gas, chores, horses, firewood. | SIDE B 00:54:27 -- 00:59:30 Horses and problems with horsepower, Alden Burt who took a blacksmithing course, and having to slaughter an abused horse; horsepower, blacksmiths, Alden Burt, horses, western horses. | SIDE B 00:59:30 -- 01:00:29 Fox ranching; fox ranching, fur, fox pelts, Charlottetown, foxes. | SIDE B 01:00:29 -- 01:05:30 His first tractor in 1951 and his first car in 1953; 1951, tractors, tractor prices, cars, 1953, horse. | SIDE B 01:05:30 -- 01:07:10 Veterinarians; veterinarians, horses. | SIDE B 01:07:10 -- 01:08:34 Blacksmiths; blacksmiths, Suffolk. | SIDE B 01:08:34 -- 01:15:45 Discussion about his family continues, with mention of midwifes and home remedies; doctors, midwives, home remedies, WWI. | SIDE B 01:15:45 -- 01:17:50 Discussion about WWII, celebrations after the war, and his mother coming down with the Spanish Flu after WWI; WWII, VE Day, Spanish Flu. | SIDE B 01:17:50 -- 01:18:20 The Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion. | SIDE B 01:18:20 -- 01:20:16 Sheep on the family farm; sheep, wool. | SIDE B 01:20:16 -- 01:21:47 Flour bag clothing; flour bag clothes, clothes, homemade clothing. | SIDE B 01:21:47 -- 01:22:35 Pack peddlers and the Raleigh man; clothing, pack peddlers, Raleigh man. | SIDE B 01:22:35 -- 01:23:24 Christmas and interactions with Santa; oranges, Christmas, presents, toys, Santa Claus. | SIDE B 01:23:24 -- 01:22:35 Changes in the economy and inflation; inflation, money, prices, economy. | SIDE B 01:22:35 -- 01:27:48 The Great Depression and droughts in Western Canada; Great Depression, droughts, hard work. | SIDE B 01:27:48 -- 01:29:56 The first telephone; telephones, crank telephones, general stores. | SIDE B 01:29:56 -- 01:31:15 The Harvest Excursion; Harvest Excursion, train fair. | SIDE B 01:31:15 -- 01:34:27 His fist trip off of PEI, driving sheep and cattle to the Charlottetown wharf, and meat markets; 1970, driving cattle, walking, Charlottetown, traveling. | SIDE B 01:34:27 -- 01:34:57 The first car in the Suffolk; Humpmobile, Suffolk, cars, nicknames. | Tape ends at 01:34:57.