sleighs and they had a machine for digging up the mud. You didn't have to touch it with a shovel or anything. We used to put it in little piles in the field, then spread it, let it dry out. It's great. Great fertilizer for the fields.... If they were using mussel mud [today] they wouldn'thave to be buying all the lime they're buying. Mussel mud would last for 20 years in the ground. You got to put the lime on every three or four years. We used to cut the marshes then. That was in August. Mostly every farm had an acre or so of marsh. You had to cut them with a scythe. You couldn't put a horse or a machine on them. It was too soft. We used to have sleighs and we'd carry them out and load the hay onto them. And a long rope. And the horse was on the shore and he'd pull it to shore. We had to haul it home and dry it on the dry land. Marsh hay. Feed it to the cattle. It was good to feed. They just loved it. It was pretty near as good as the upland hay was. It'd be something like corn, I guess. Farming Well now, I always thought it was a pretty good job. A hundred and thirty acres. A hundred clear. It was all with horses then. I done it all with the horses till about, oh, '44 or '45. It was in the '40s I got a tractor. Ploughed and harrowed. Done everything [with the horses]. Everything that a tractor can do. We'd have the crop in just as quick as we do now with the tractors. Oh yes, we had to work hard. There'd always be something to do you know. [In the spring] there'd be weeding to do and whitewash the barns and paint them - that was a big chore. Then haying'd come on. Potatoes and turnips and grain. The old scuffler with the horse in it and you had to walk behind it and your heels would be blistered in the evening. They were a nice rig. You held the stilts, like an old-fashioned plough, you know, to keep it straight. You'd have to use it about three or four times a summer. Just whenever the potatoes'd get grassy. Hoe the potatoes and turnips. Clean between the drills. When we got the tractor we made a rig on the tail of the tractor that'd pull three scufflers. Three scufflers'd take three drills, you see, instead of one. At the wood, and at the potato digging, and harvest; all the neighbours worked together at that. It made it easy, too, you know. When we got all the digging done, the potatoes were piled in the barn and the cellars and when most of the work was done up for the fall, they were graded and shipped. And there was a lady by the name of Sarah Hall used to go up 56 BELFAST PEOPLE