Chapter IV ECONOMY Poem, Man of the Soil,................................................ 29 Early Agricultural Methods ............................................ 30 Marsh Hay........................................................... 33 Inland Haying........................................................ 34 The Commons ....................................................... 35 Dairy Farming........................................................ 35 Milk Haulers ................................................ 37 Co. (1944)......................................... 39 Grain Harvesting..................................................... 41 Poem, Tater Picking................................................... 42 Potato Farming....................................................... 42 Poultry Industry ...................................................... 58 Comparison of Farming ............................................... 58 Lime Kiln............................................................ 59 The Fox Industry ..................................................... 60 The Flax Industry in Freetown .......................................... 60 Mushroom Plant...................................................... 62 Soya Beans .......................................................... 62 Farmers 1985 ................................................ 63 Taylor's Mill ......................................................... 63 Clark's Mills......................................................... 64 Poem, The Old Mill on the Dunk........................................ 65 Mills' on the Dunk at ....................................... 66 Mills at Mill Valley .................................................... 70 Burns' Mills.......................................................... 71 Wall's Mills.......................................................... 71 The Village Store (Poem)............................................... 73 Auld's General Store ................................................... 74 Mr. Auld (Poem)...................................................... 76 Ralph R. Burns General Store ........................................... 76 Other General Stores .................................................. 77 Dress Making........................................................ 78 Shoe Making......................................................... 78 Tailoring ............................................................ 78 Blacksmiths.......................................................... 79 Stone................................................ 80 Wheelwrights........................................................ 80 Brick Making........................................................ 80 Texaco Service Station................................................. 81 The Dunk River Salmon Hatchery ....................................... 81 Other Businesses...................................................... 84 Poem, Hazards of Hair................................................ 85 vi