12 The Gunilla, “erbium”, m m 3’ 1983"FEDERATION OF AGRIC. NEWSLETTER
ACROSS THE ISLAND
Early Motoring Days Recalled
y NEIL A. MATHESON
When Winter Comes. . .
With the first week of March now over the world of nature starts to show evidence of new life. Whereas in December it was dark before five o'clock now day has lengthened with considerable twilight up to .630
linated one producer to be con- lsidered for the National Advis- lory Dairy Committee. Cooper- ation among Maritime dairy- Lmen seems to be at a high le- ‘vel and there is considerable loptimism over the future of the
[effective and interesting the information
lon a wide variety of agriculture I
topics and may well presage a
lnew era in extension. As an ex-
dium of spreading
Country
5. ample the
Ti e ‘program of last Saturday entit-
hmd
town to building a dam th 3 hi The making a ‘ bull dozer and muttering pres-tea to. change. One thing is a cer-ipublic tainty the sponsors of this pro-.three
orator of the 13-7 involved would iject were not picking up the’ have been more at home be itab. There’s too much experi- ' team of oxen. There’sfmentlng with pubhc funds.
department concerned.
ew passes with allndustry and Natural Resource - has constructed over m‘ past‘ (1962) 1
fishing dams this years. Last year
ding. .most continually and after
.istopped an enforced wait ensu- sch
der to allow the cut enough to
fl Provincial - Farm Editor
LAST WEEK‘S column on the early days of automobiles sunset assume a different. 89-: . . bought 50 many reactions, 1 think i had bemu- ieu you about peamance from that assocmted the impression abroad that a and was no doubt Viewed ve not been able to pmpojnt the With the greyness of November scarcity of hay existed in the many thousands of people. Over the years Farm Forum
some of them right away. I
clock and both the sunrise in n d
Sunrise is well before 7 O'- inew promotional SCARCITY
venture. ‘ HAY ?
yeag- that the rule of the road was changed on "drive m the right" and December. Clouds take on province. Without question there
though I have diligently searched through the yearly issues of a different appearance, new was certainly no abundance of has employed radio to spread e's no sign of it .visitors in the bird world ap- good hay, but an open fall with knowledge and information on
"The Laws of Prince Edward Island" and ther matters
Trevor Waye. Char-pear about the farm yard. in‘good pastures helped to reserveisocial and economic small the available supplies. In addl-jrelated to agriculture and has Of water appear about tion. cattle are getting better in addition. fostered and encour- _ of than average mileage per bale aged group action on a variety
until 1928
'- . as I said last week. but Dr lottetown '
sticker on the windshield. and the date is May 9 , I believe. must be the first year the rllle was in force. A letter the door on the south side from Kenneth Ross. Bridgetown yesterday tells me the Stewart‘huildings. The snow doesn't due to the
Vermnerit pa. the amendment in
One of the more interesting calls came Blanchard who taught me at PWC when both of us were consid erany younger. He was a teacher at St. Dllnistan's College— was not. a University then- in 1008 and sat in the gallery of Legislature when the bill was passed banning the cars
Island roads, THE OPPOSITION was
viho had a great Caiouette. had nothing on won't be able, to keep our cows in the 1:
some. autos to run on our roads.
“Woe to us if we ever allow those machines Into this prov— pllhlic feeling
lnce". another man had
called.
shouted. The automobiles was terrific my old teacher told me , the law was changed in 191.1 to allow cars on roads where at "He'll Ifavellmfi “I‘d the Side least 75 per cent of the residents signed an agreement that cars "fads being a particular (1811ch could run on their road. I often wondered how safe-those. who sign- Wlllh "1911‘ 5mm”! Wlde Surface ed were from the 25 per cent who refused“, Mr, Blanchard re- and
.D.
1924
has a picture of a car with a "Drive to the Right"‘ the .5 1924. So that ponds
.tlrom Professor .I.1-I. the” can
strong. some speeches were really R m" a violent." said Mr. Blanchard who recalls one Bedeqlle member ' ‘ \ gift of language and expressive gestures him". the retired teacher told me. "W astute. no fence will hold hem" the Bedeolle man had thundered. "If we allow those fear-
And wh
Union Road Was First Opened
HART HARDY. Union Road. 86. told me this week his road May. On May 24, 1926 no c to cars and he is the only man still had been able to get from Ch"- 1 agreement in 1913. Promoters of auto-.10ttetown to Summerside and
was the first to be ope living who signed tha
a ainst . . g o est Winters on record With ex~
March afternoon
drift quite so readily and while be severe storms
ore Even with the new hope there long period of feeding for cattle, over two months and
éthis year the hay certainly doe-‘
sn‘t rate an Oscar and this is evidenced by butter production being at its lowest level for many years.
This has been one of the Illn-
t
freedom from dust. All this is, of course. quite a con- trast to the presnow plough era when roads remained blocked in some cases to the middle
mobile traffic wanted that road opened to permit tourist traffic these were what are described
to the Cliff Ho
use. now the Stanhope Beach Inn. on
side. After the feat had been accomplished "we had a big din-
oer at the Cliff House to celebrate the. accomplishment". he told
e. Mr. Hardy is also the last surviving member of the P.E.I.. the Canadian contingent of soldiers Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. in 1897 and he showed me Iglan‘l p.09.“ growers- , the medal hc icccivcd from the hand of King Edward VII. who Pel'sonal'tles Fromm?“t m 132: dam ranks among the top trout l dams
E OF the calls directed me to W.(‘. Lawson. 60 Green duvln-f! Circles “'1” (“501155 35‘ dams Street. who owned the first car in Alberton where he was a pects of the potato industry. We (.05. of an _ some interesting recollections He suspect that some of the obser- m and a” four withstood bought the car in mm and recalls it was quite an experience to rations will not be altogether springs , . miles-— in one day. comforting to island producers . Two hundred and {my odd dni. (Ynnversatlon until later on
group who went with
was then Prince of Vl'a cs.
bank manager. and he had
make a return trip to Slimmcrside--—abo
lit 90 He was returning from Summersidle once when he got a stop but if bad weather is devellop- ‘ la” were returned .0 the De. bill signal from two men in a horse-drawn wagon. Then he
got
as "the good old days". POTATO PROGRAM
On Sunday. March 17 Country Calendar will among 0 t h e r '1‘ h ree
tario merchandizing and
R ing for lls we should know about
indifferent quality. All this seems to add up to no apparent scarcity and little de-
lgood hay appear to range from $20 to $25 per ton with som e
:20 figure. ‘ EXTENSION SERVICES Generally extension services. a term used to de ribe the spreading of agricultural infor- mation. has been sentered in de- p en. of agriculture and carried out by officials «intract- ing farmers individually. groups and at matings. To some extent through radio but increas— ingly by television agricultural education is being carried out of local stations and the Farm Broadcast Departmente of various regions .
.. I
H'U NTERS'
tContlnued front page R1 (‘onsiderable landscaping was done at this site in order to eliminate unsightly sawdust rails. alder thickets, etc. This in the province. Four were constructed at a apploximate $750.- flood
rccord levels
pariment. I didn't have time
last 1““
lied “The Island" did a g reat
‘deal to interpret our province's Last fall there appeared to be way of life to the rest of Canada by
“ of programs.
l
_ lf‘nince County. . .not a single twitness 1961) in late March and ‘ mand e v e n for good qualIIYidam constructed or even start- ‘It early April they are mild storms .hay. P r i c e s being asked for ; ed, Herewiih is "other extract the: and there is little danger of real mm. cold any to
3from the fist Association report -
‘branch received 3500 from
tural resources last "but how much can you with $500?"
This columnist. enquiring mind, would ‘have
,was accomplished [aforementioned $500.
ueens County could do plenty ‘with less than that. I have “been told by one. familiar with
fl‘ what was attempted with the
five hundred in question, tiliat
30; Television is proving m b" an results obtained were practi-
cally zero. Most of the time the machine was bogged down and awaiting assistance in be- coming mobile once more. Kings County also got the. idea last year of building dams on their own. 1 was told by an East Kings Association mem-
to items carry one of interest to piles‘ "id slabs. sunken steel her that there. was nothing to
is dam building. . .it was
really quite simple: They were
gomg to hire a dozer and do it themselves. The Harmony Dam was listed as the first pro-
1.
I promptly forgot about this it came in to the Department
in connection with the Har-
T’Ig" I“ mm“ a‘hcad SIO‘VW- but the hills“ “'35 nibbling 3“ the the cold fronts before they ap- at mv disposal in "mm. the many Dam construction for the grass on the side of the road. by the time Mr. Lawson was d’l'lV— prom. «
lug past him. me. 'et the owner of the horse
“The animal didn't even recognize. us." he to was out on the road several
days later trying to stop motorists with-a pitch fork.
Stuck In Mudhole Even In Summer "WE WERE stuck a great deal! in mud-holes." even in the summer time that would happen after a heavy rain. he told me.
Mr. Lawson recalls that a Captain Taylor who was a government boat that looked after buoys. and R who was ihcn superintendent of education, wanted
in charge of . Rogers: to get from
Alberton tn Summerside one evening so they could catch the
morning train to Charlottetown.
Mr. Lawson agreed to take them after his office closed. and
he made Summerside about 10 o'clock at night. But he got stuck discussed both I ‘ on a hack road on the return trip—the main Western road wasn't planm‘d and as now (“arr19d cluded every province
n to cars—when he got into cuts that were hidden by poolsout. The second program on We made and most every state covered the road. He had to get a team to haul 18th will deal with the v alue lthe us_
of watcr that
he assured me
recalls an era which is a story in itself.
Recalling stories 1 had heard of the long swamp on the. where" is going. Finally m the Mr. Law-son about it. There were five 25”, miles of corduroy road with logs laid crosswise on the top and will he a summary and report you had to bump over them, he told me. If clay covered the. tim- n" mltstanding feature. of H‘ e hers at first. it got shaken off. or filtered down through the sea ' timber by the movement of traffic. It made really rough gomg. DMRY PROMOTION
Western Road. I asked
Eorly Incidents Are 'Recolled l DROPPFJ‘I in on John Mackenzie last Friday on my way across country from (‘raipaud and Westmoreland to Breadalhanc. and found he had first—hand knowledge of several things I talked
about last. week.
John who lives in Rose Valley. was at Breadalbarle the day If‘red Wotton's car arrived on a flat car from Slimmchldc. and
he helped him unload it.
Wntton was not allowed to take it over the run
it had to come by railway because Mr.
ds_ He drove the.
Mmile round~trip mail route Breadalbane to Victoria. and had
canvassed the box holders and received their consent to use the mill“? of 89V?" to oversee. the car on the route. John thinks it was two years before the First f’ntlre operation. In this region Great War. which stalled in 1914. though 1 think it must have there Will be a commlttee he law was passed allowing cars Some 12 persons —— four
been in 1913, for that‘s when t
to operate on road: where residents gave their consent.
JOHN ALSO remembers the when a prominent Charlottetown main avoid having his tires cut by
a sharp hill.
The man was Sam Kennedy. later whose son Sam and daughter I known here. He had the knife car he was driving. and Neil MocKay’s store if they
.arle Howaitt. Tryon tells me he the late W.K. Rogers owned in 1904. " away". he recalls.
stop
mayor of Charlottetowngbe asked to name four members rota Sutherland. are ’ e back seat ‘ up who had gathered near ' anything about it.
remembers the first oar. Y1"! 00"” he” ll a mile in addition. each province nom- Early cars were nmsy,
the whisper quiet mufflers of modern times.
First Regulations Are Listed
SEVERAL HOURS burning through old laws of the prov-l Itisce. revealed some. interesting regulations. The Motor Vehicle
other incident I spoke aboutuwork involved. Progress
just in time. to
pad a hay-mower knife that had been an spiked on to a plank, and buried in the sand at the bottom of get the show on the road. The
well ine touring
La
FARM ' FORUM
Farm Forum is now movmfs'. given the same opportunity to brought along 3 “"1
into this season's home stretch.
full thousand. . amount 0 $300. I decided I'd Hotlh Kings and Prince were ha” a 100k at the dam~ I era load-
consti‘uct dams up to a thou-
ed with coloured film but black
Reports have been coming into sand dollars worth. King's cou- 81‘“ While film would have fur- lhf‘ {Mum “fl-I99 from Mnm‘lay nty sportsmen built one dam at mShed 3” the COIN" needed. I night‘s program on the rural Cardigan North on hhe McAui. 100k two pictures just for the
church. These reports indicate good attendance and high inter-
est. ch1 Monday night the pro- large dam but has been a top reached high enough to
gram will deal with the “Co-op- crative ldca" in this effort. th e philosophy and ideals of the co- operative movement will he as originally
. “bill that was only one of many similar experiences ,‘ and effect of cooperatives in thelsup to {is .
economy. Across Canada spec.
E F‘fRST car owned in Western Plince was pulchased by ial groups in co-operative asso- B.l. Raynor on the Kildar'e Road who lived where Don Campbell piano"; will he assembling lives nou. l was told Raynor was a prominent foxmian and that take a hm]. at their own move..
to
em. where it stands and
the concluding program
S0
Dccision was arrived at byi the annual meeting of the Dairy Farmers of Canada in January; to embark on an expanded pro- . gram on promotion and adverfi tising. For fund raising and ad-i minsti'ative purposes the couri- try has been divided Into five regions with the four Atlantic Provinces being one and having one member on a national com-
of rom each province to carry out the w a a made at the Maritime meeting ’ Moncton last Thursday to
dalrymen in each province will
{to a committee which will he ‘called together in Moncton on April 30. Last Thursday‘s meet- ' named its representative to
ing the seven-man executive and,
ay Dam Site that had been out for years. It is not an overly
trout producer nevertheless. An observer told me that in a ten day riod last summer he jolted down 162 different li- cense plate numbers which in-
record. The dam wasn‘t even
ere. 1 don't think the water run through the bypass. They learn- ed the hard way that alders and earth do not constitute a stable dam embankment.
I'd say offhand that the. op-
ame
Quote "Mr. buyer resistence at aver th 9 Hancock stated the East Prince the department of industry and na- year. do
being of an like to a statement from the in East Prince branch Just what ' with the We in
pm
in Ca- in
that stopped at this ' b
There was a big zero lorl
IF IT’S FISH “WILL CllT" WE HAVE IT
and try the ALL-NEW
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lightweight,
they didn'
Iluvl
Act. of 1922. for example. provided that cars were limited to 12 f t
mil ed to 15 M.P.H. i 1921
. limit was 10 MPH. on highways approaching an,
e s hterseectiom a steep descent. a bridge or if the. operator had
v .
I). and slow to 12 miles a home or other
cautlm to avoid frightening the animal"
per hour when meeting 8 animal" and must use every pre
per hour in any city or incorpora ed own~it was changw .57 n
m 8-“
r means of warning was required
A ball. born or othe THE ACT had one clause which prevented "sir.
bits of glass. to injure tlres on motor vehicles." for vidators was ligh
Hid had been provided
drive an agnomoblle on the road. when the ban on cars was im-
I11
at.
, limit. was six miles per rubber tires that weighed more when loa
Ind lrm or steel tires The total width
for
hour on heavy vehicles} four and one-half
than
ed. and four per hour if
ng tacks
scraps of metal or other materials that are liabld
a man who would
the heavy vehicle
coidd not exceed 96 inches.
Old Parties To Sweep P.E.I.
VlHAVHa 3* hammered) tblaweek Ins}:
. tend .. "Even in Queens NHL-Angus MacLean had a mar- Ase
now. considering the treated In the present situation.
directing the Liberal campaign win fl! four con
this province. here insist the goal
is where the
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