It-Iarvest From Land And 
     
     Sea Readied For Export 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bringing a. new industry to Prince Edward Island and 
     
     one which shows indications of going far due to the quality 
     
     of the product is the Eastern Potato Chips Incorporated, or 
     
     Souris. 
     
    

    
     The five shareholders in the company expect to mar. 
     
     ket their product in all the Atlantic Provinces and to this 
     
     end have arranged for representatives to sell their chips 
     
     in the other Provinces. The modern plant only went into 
     
     production last week and as yet is not running at full capac- 
     
     ity. The chips are being sold under the brand name ”Spud 
     
     Island." 
     
    

    
     At full capacity the machines are capable of making 
     
     200 pounds of chips per hour. 
     
    

    
     The potatoes are put into a rotary-type washer which 
     
     also removes the skins; they are then emptied into a load- 
     
     ing platform and an automatic conveyor takes them into 1 
     
     slicer. After this they are carried through a long washing 
     
     cylinder where they are thoroughly cleaned. 
     
    

    
     From the final washing the chips 'are moved by con. 
     
     veyor belt to the long cooking machine. This is known as 
     
     a Ferry model cooking machine. 
     
    

    
     As the chips come from the cooking appliance they 
     
     drop into large cartons. These are then carried over to 
     
     where a group of girls are working to put them into the 
     
     trademarked packages, which in turn are sent along a con. 
     
     veyor belt to another girl who sends the packages through 
     
     a sealing machine. 
     
    

    
     Another male employee thereupon packs them in the 
     
     convenient small cartons in which they are shipped to the 
     
     retail or wholesale trade. 
     
    

    
     The newly incorporated company has five sharehold- 
     
     ers, Messrs. J. Brenton St. John, M.L.A., Melvin J. Mc- 
     
     Quaid, Ronald R. MacDonald, Arthur MacDonald and 
     
     Eugene MacDonald. The latter is the manager of the new 
     
     plant and operator of the cooking machine. 
     
    

    
     Those who have already sampled the Souris potato 
     
     chips are in general agreement that they are of first rate 
     
     Quality, deliciously cooked and salted to perfection. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The extent of the operations at the Eastpack plant, 
     
     Souris, may be judged by the series of pictures left. They 
     
     serve to tell the people the story of the entire fish fillet- 
     
     ing operation. In the first picture the Marybelie is just 
     
     arriving at the dock after a heavy catch. The second shot 
     
     shows the unloading operation in the huge buckets oper- 
     
     ated by winches and the third illustrates how they come 
     
     into the finishing room. There a large group of men skin 
     
     the haddock, hake and cod before a belt carries them to 
     
     fllietters. The final photo shows the last operation before 
     
     freezing as a large staff of girls pack them into boxes. 
     
     These are all stamped with the trade name of the manu- 
     
     facturer and are widely sold in North America. The con- 
     
     tinuous operation from the time of arrival of the dragger 
     
     to the freezing guarantees a top quality product arriving 
     
     on the dinner table of the customer. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Pictured above right is the new plant of the Eastern 
     
     Potato Chips Incorporated, Souris, and attractive Miss Mar- 
     
     garet Keus, a native of Holland who is now employed there 
     
     as a packer. Miss Keus is shown at the final stage of the 
     
     cooking process as the freshly finished chips are coming 
     
     up on the automatic conveyor. She is holding several 
     
     packages of the product. The potatoes are thoroughly 
     
     washed and peeled and then go through extra spraying 
     
     operations before they are cooked in hot deep fat. They 
     
     are being marketed under the trade name ”Spud island”. 
     
    
   
   
    
     At the present time Souris is one of the most bustling 
     
     towns in the Maritimes. Its port already has 12 draggers 
     
     operating out of it and is expected to have even more 
     
     within a short time. At present the bulk of the handling 
     
     of fish coming in is being done by the Easipack Company, 
     
     managed by Messrs. Paul and Edward Gallant and J. 
     
     Arthur Peters. Another large plant (centre right) is being 
     
     erected by Mr. Albert Griffin. The Souris waterfront is a 
     
     continually busy place and the results are reflected in the 
     
     employment in that town of large numbers of men and 
     
     women from nearby areas. Another great shipping industry 
     
     has grown up through the sale of pulpwood and the extent 
     
     of this may easily be seen. 
     
    

    
     Pictured here are two scenes, (lower right) the Souris 
     
     waterfront in general with another showing some of the 
     
     huge piles of pulpwood gathered to await shipment.