11111:1! JOHN B. MACFADYEN John Bell MacFadyen was born in Augustine Cove on February IS 1865. He was the son of Neil Hooter MacFadyen and his wife, Jane Bel Mr. MacFadyen was personally of a retiring disposition, selcoi heard as a speaker, but he was the brains and moving spirit in most o the progressive movements in agriculture in his time. It was he, along with Prof. Paul A . Murphy then plant pathologist and Dr. J. A. Clark of the , who fathered and intro duced the white potato seed industry in this province. Gradually, herj and there, throughout the province individual farmers experimented wit' the white varieties and whenever they did so, Prof. Murphy and Ml MacFadyen found a renumerative market for them. But soon organization was found to be necessary and again it was Mr. MacFadyen who took tl initiative. He enlisted the support of Mr. J. 0. Hyndman and a meetiffi was convened in 1920, out of which the P.E.I. Potato Growers Association grew and, of which he was a life-long director. He had taken trips oi his own to , Maine, to learn there how the people organ ized for the Seed Potato Growers' Association. He was particularly interested in cranberry and blueberry pr° duction. Only failing health in the later years of his life prevented hit from personally demonstrating the possibility of high grade production in both berries. This revelation, alone, put, Mr. MacFadyen years ahea> of his time. It has only been in recent years that the development c these berries has been undertaken on a major scale. He was also interested in poultry production, being one of the fii's to experiment with the now commonly-owned egg incubators; and alwa)' 42