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.
