Chapter IV

ECONOMY

Poem, Man of the Soil .................................................. Early Agricultural Methods ............................................ Marsh Hay ........................................................... Inland Haying ........................................................ The Commons ....................................................... Dairy Farming ..................... ‘ ................................... Freetown Milk Haulers ................................................ Dunk River Dairying Co. (1944) .......................... ' ............... Grain Harvesting ..................................................... Poem, Tater Picking ................................................... Potato Farming ....................................................... Poultry Industry ...................................................... Comparison of Farming ............................................... Lime Kiln ............................................................ The Fox Industry ..................................................... The Flax Industry in Freetown .......................................... Mushroom Plant ...................................................... Soya Beans .......................................................... Freetown Farmers 1985 ................................................ Taylor’s Mill ......................................................... Clark’s Mills ......................................................... Poem, The Old Mill on the Dunk ........................................ Mills’ on the Dunk at Scales Pond ....................................... Mills at Mill Valley .................................................... Burns’ Mills .......................................................... Wall’s Mills .......................................................... The Village Store (Poem) ............................................... Auld’s General Store ................................................... Mr. Auld (Poem) ...................................................... Ralph R. Burns General Store ........................................... Other General Stores .................................................. Dress Making ........................................................ Shoe Making ......................................................... Tailoring ............................................................ Blacksmiths .......................................................... Quarrying Island Stone ................................................ Wheelwrights ........................................................ Brick Making ........................................................ Texaco Service Station ................................................. The Dunk River Salmon Hatchery ....................................... Other Businesses ......................................................

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