Most farmers thresh their grain in the field today, with a blower attached to a self-propelled combine blowing the grain into trucks which follow along, and the grain is blew into the bins in the granaries. Haying operations have improved vastly, from when the hay was cut with a scythe, gathered into piles, then taken in, first by hand, then by horses hauling loads pitched on with forks. Today it is cut and conditioned, baled and hauled by tractor to the barns where an escalator lifts it to its place. The first tractor in Lot 16 was bought by William H. MacGregor, a Fordson Maior. ‘

POTATOES The first record of potatoes being grown on the Island is in I771. Today it is the chief cash crop on the Island. Most of the potatoes are exported for seed, but some are made into potato chips and instant potatoes. Lot 16 farmers have a very high acreage in potatoes.

EARLY EDUCATION

When land on Prince Edward Island was being granted in I767, each proprietor promised to provide one hundred acres for a church and thirty ‘3 acres for a schoolmaster. Few proprietors kept their promises, and settlers who had little money could not pay, schoolmasters. Only the children of the merchants and a few well to do people were sent away to schools on the mainland or in the Old Country. If children of the poor farmers and fishermen received any education, it was from old soldiers or travellers who taught what little they knew in return for their board and lodging. It was I852 when a law was passed establishing Free Schools on the Island and grants of money were given by the Island government to local school sections to pay the teachers salaries.

. LIBRARIES

A library system for the Island was set up in I933, with monies from the Andrew Carnegie Corporation. $95,000.00 was given. This continued until I936, and was such a success that the government of the Island decided to carry on the library service at its own expense. Today, books circulate through branch libraries in all sections of the Island, and every school has a library service.

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LIGHTING

First, it was fireplaces and home made candles. The candles were made by putting tallow in a kettle of boiling water. The tallow came to the surface-where it could be handled more easily. Five or so wicks, twisted at one end with a loop, were slipped over a small stick. They were dipped into the liquid tallow where they became saturated. When the tallow congealed, they were dipped again and again until the wick was surrounded by a thick coating of tallow. Later on come moulds for making the candles, a great mprovement. A length of candlewick was threaded through each section of the mould and the hot tallow poured in. There

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