Nelson Matherly

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Matherly, Nelson
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-08-06
Abstract
This is an interview with Nelson Matherly. In this interview Nelson talks about his dairy farm, cattle, butter, ice, cars, milk factories, milk, moose, and various other topics.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
East Wiltshire, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1944
1947
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:56:08
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:09:45
How he became a dairy farmer, his family farm, going to Prince of Wales College, ice being cut out of local ponds, and electricity in 1944; 1944, electricity, ice ponds, ice, Prince of Wales College, cattle, farming, milk, dairy.

SIDE A 00:09:45 -- 00:19:38
Working in the milk and butter factory, the differences between the old and new ones, steam engines, where they would get coal for the factory, cars, and bad hills; cars, coal, steam engines, creameries, butter, milk.

SIDE A 00:19:38 -- 00:31:29
Dutch reads a newspaper article about old milk factories Nelson talks about his opinions on margarine, making butter, butter milk, wholesalers, and Canada Packers; Canada Packers, margarine, butter, butter milk, wholesalers, milk, creameries.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:29.
SIDE B 00:31:45 -- 00:41:30
Discussion about his salary in 1947, making over a million pounds of butter in his small plant, his guesses as to why Wiltshire Dairy has survived, and unpasteurized milk; milk, butter, 1947, wages, Wiltshire Dairy.

SIDE B 00:41:30 -- 00:50:05
What to do when the butter process would fail, moose at the mill, Mrs. Cannon and moose hair, and moose meat; moose, Cannon, mills, butter, moose meat.

SIDE B 00:50:05 -- 00:56:08
A woman talks about a moose hitting a train, moose being intelligent, and engineers; engineers, moose, trains.

Tape ends at 00:56:08.