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THIS FARMING INDUSTRY

By NEIL A. MATHESON in those earliest days. They pro-

“PORTRAIT OF A PATIENT

Associated Press . suite at Bethesda Naval Hos- operation.

Seed Potato Industry Here Goes Back Almost 50 Yrs.

“This province’s seed potato in-|duced~ perhaps --300---bushels—of..

dustry has come a long way Cobblers to the acre, with a since « trial shipment of a car- heavy coat of manure.

load of Irish Cobblers was sent, There were no potato in- to Southern Ontario im 1918. I spectors here in 1918, there talked about it a few days ago,| are 32 now. Back in 1926 with (Glen Ramsay who retired) when Glen first became an on Saturday as district seéd po-| inspector, there were about

tato inspector here Ghen grew cight in all. One of them, up with. the industry in that his Glen told me, was Alban father A.J. Ramsay, Belmont) Farmer who is now the At- Lot 16, had some spuds on that tormey General. Alban

comes from Kinkora where his father, Michael Farmer, wags a prominent farmer. Henry MacLaren, who pre- ceded Glen as district in- spector, was also on the staff in 1926; so was Roy F. MacLean who now runs a tourist establishment the Malpeque Road, just ide of Charlottetown.

Green Mountains and! Cob- blers long held the potate spotlight. Mr. Peppin wrote that in 1919 the Island enter- ed three samples of Moun- tains seed in “the annual seed test on Leng Island’’. Small test lois were sent to oth r_ states, principally

first carload of Cobblers, and he has been closely associated with the industry since he became a} seed inspector in 1926.

I recall that Eddie Clark, Bel- mont, Lot 16 told me last sum- mer that the seed potato indus- try started in his area and I) find that 10 Lot 16 farmers had spuds in that initial shipment.

Politically’ minded people will | temember A.E. MacLean who) was a Liberal member of parlia- ment for Prince for many years. | There was also William Mac-| Lean, and Roy E. MaoLean.| There were three Simpson men, Fulton, Alfred and Judson: Birchfield Yeo, P.A_ Lyle and W.H. MacGregor who was ac-| tive in the early seed develop-/ New Jersey, Virginia and ment, along with Mr. Ramsay.| Pennsylvania.

In 1919 9 carlead of Green’ powER SPRAYERS USED Mountains was shipped to | Heat ated Long Island and the stock p47 guovers when tee awed im did so well that every Is- eT te - land seed spud available one ig ages lsat aniond was bought: la: the eat toe ers” came into use two years years and by 1926 the bus- later — apparently in 1920. They iness had increased to more vee “oe paired odbc gig a than 600 carloads. Last year, Power Was SprmNG ty te SO for example, 1,482,750 hun |-horse: that pulled them. Two dredweighis of seed were % these came ino the Lat it shipped. Seed production hit . a slightly mere than 31,000 (7% shares by the growers in-

acres several years ago. “Watson”, the other a Spray- It's a far cry from 1918 when pie ”

farmers crawled ‘on their knees! The seed potato certification |

in the cellars, or bins, and grad-| service was inaugurated in 1916, |

ed the potatoes by picking them with headquarters im Prince Ed- | and I’m quoting | me that nobody knew anything here from Mr. Peppin. He was | grading seed spuds at district inspector here for 35)

into baskets. Mr. Ramsay tells’ ward Island, about first — nobody had any exper- year:

ience — so S.G. Peppin, district The man who first talked

seed inspector at the time,-spent| shout ~seed potatoes in- this -pro-_

a day with each grower, donned vince, I believe, was Paul Mur- @ pair of overalls and~ explain- phy. This is from Glen Ram- ea just what was required, and gays memory, and he warns it what must be discarded. {might not be exactly correct,

It's a far ery .indeed from but he believes that Mr. Mur- those early days to today’s mo- phy spoke to a group of Lot 16 dern graders. A normal 18-inch farmers at meetings in their grader will handle one carload community ball, and that would in an eight-hour day, large 48inch grader, Bill least it was shortly before they Thompson, Associated Shippers started growing seed spuds teljs me. will grade five -car- here. foads in an eight-hour day: They If I can interrupt the con- handle roughly. one-half carioad | tinuity right here, I want to per hour over this big machine. say that the first potatoes

There are many other com-_ that ever came to this pro- parisons. They used no fertilizer vince were carried across

ee One of the sprayers was |

and the b_ back around 1916 or 1917, at)

the width of the single plow — — on would turn wider. practice was ‘‘to| pad : eae or plant a row af potatoes to every two rounds of ithe plow. But sometimes the grower only planted one row to three rounds of the plow and the width between the dritis was the ice by a man named Ho = &reater. : gan, who lived in the far The potato land was harrow- western part of Prince. This ed after planting, until the tops came from the scrap book came up. Then the rows were of a well known West __ scuffled with a horse-drawn, one- Prince resident who died in row scuffler, and later, when - the last 20 years. I believe the tops were high enough, the that the man was a mem- potato drills were ‘moulded’. ber of the Hogan family — or ‘‘hilled’’, as some people that lived not far from the called it. lighthouse .at North Cape — | |'ve run out of space, and I visited the home two years there ig much more I want to ago — but I’m not sure I (talk about. But I'l be back on

common name in our area that sounded like ‘‘Gene- leans’. I'm sure now that | | they must have been “Jen- : ny Linds.” And there were

his idea of a wonderful meal. “You-ean—keep..the turkey and | trimmings", he observed.

The first Irish Cobbler seed

i

The first rine of bais we weed in the Island were 90-pound con- | tainers..Then the size jumped to ~: 1165 pounds and later to 1580

, Glen ' Prince Edward Island Potato

Johnson is a Friday (AP Wirephoto)

pital, Washington. recuperating from

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a ek te oe about 20 inches apart,

would appreciate hearing this topic again. I have in tind from anyone who has a 4 visit to a Brookfield man, Eli-- comment. If that story is pathalet Howatt who was a col- correct, I'd Hike te hear orfyl sigure in many a stormy

more’ about it. If the story to

is wrong, I still want ge about it.

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