oerimented with the latest and best in agricultural machinery. It was I who first introduced spraying for the potato bug, and it is said that was responsible for urging the introduction of plowing matches. Around the turn of the century, with his foresight and progressive cure, he advocated the building of a causeway between New Brunswick d Prince Edward Island . However, realizing that this was not going to possible, he concentrated on the idea of a carferry, and he played a ..ding role m the fight to get the Borden -Tormentine ferry service tabhshed in 1917, and was known by many as "the father of the car- *ry He wrote letters to the Federal Minister, James Richards , in Ot- :va but received no answers. Realizing that Mr. Richards was more erested in the Steam Navigation Company than in a carferry he be- n to register his letters to him and then received replies. Around 1909 1910, a meeting was held in Emerald with Capt. Joseph Read of the ovmcial House as guest speaker. So eager was Mr. MacFadyen to have e public hear the talk that he hired a train from Cape Traverse to merald (about $40). A few months later he hired another train to larlottetown on the same mission. Truly it was said of him that he was for anything that was for e good of the Island. Mr. MacFadyen , who never married, spent all his e m Augustine Cove , where he died on March 30, 1937, at the age of 72 ELMA B. INMAN mam Elma .Barbara> the only iiving child of Job and Ida (nee Dawson) Uulti^ ™ °ne stormy night' January 13, 1897. She attended the I1W • nue one-room school> after which she went to Prince of vonV«, \?-arlottetown> and then taught school for five years, The Methodist, later United, church added to many other good influences 43