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With James\u2019 help at times\u2014 for was it not he who rocked him so fondly to sleep? We enjoyed a spell of baby-sitting today taking over the care of \u201cWee Alex\u201d when the rest of the family in the house across the lane must take a trip to town this afternoon. This outing was mainly to meet Granddaughter\u2019s appointment at the dentist\u2019s, though it had its other interesting incidentals besides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was, perhaps to be the most important item of all, a pair of sturdy white boots brought home to replaie [sic] those scuffed and worn by the active lad who before long will be making first steps. He creeps smartly, and can now easily draw himself up beside chairs and couches. He can also get himself into awkward places from which a quick rescue must be made!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A farmer from Prince Edward Island<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

However perhaps to Mack, a man-size shovel was the most engaging souvenir of the trip, a clean shining thing to be of much assistance to him clearing away any March snow from the verandahs and yardpaths about. Or above all else, contributing as we see it no small share to the wellbeing of farm and family, though in roundabout ways, were not the sacks of \u201cstore feed\u201d for the animals, the truck carried home to lane\u2019s end of most moment? Or maybe back of those, we smiled weighing everything, were the farmers\u2019 uniforms of blue denim \u2014 the overalls, [illegible] most important items of all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James in the armchair, stock now bedded for the night, clears his throat, as ignal [sic] that he is about to share with us some pleasing article in the farmpaper he reads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHear this, Ellen\u201d he says \u201cThe heading asks \u2018Where Have The Farmers Gone?… Science did a shameful thing, it forced the farmer to become an agriculturist\u2019…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It goes on to say: \u2018There used to be farmers, men who worked the soil, raised stock and children, accumulated debts and blamed the government. It is time to shed a tear for the vanishing race.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Picking potatoes on Charlie Townshend\u2019s farm in 1946.Prince Edward Island<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2018Today it seems, we have agriculturist, agronomists, country squires and land economists \u2014 indeed everything but farmers. Some farms are beginning to look like scientific laboratories, others like sprawling machinery depots, It is all in the name of progress\u2026 The march of science has changed the way of rural life.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI cant read it all to you, Ellen\u201d James offers. \u201cYou\u2019ll have to read it for yourself \u2014 it\u2019s real interesting\u201d he nods. \u201cIt ends like this: \u201c \u2018Yes, there was a day when a strong man dedicated to the soil and his animals, and unafraidi [sic] of hard work could become a farmer. Today you are almost second rate unless you graduated from an accredited agricultural college. And worst of all your farm has to have electric lights, running water, a flush toilet and television or you are not progressive.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cultivating Potatoes on Lewis Farm.Earl Blanchard on tractor George Lewis on Cultivator at Freetown area of Prince Edward Island<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Some farmers are not only living but beginning to look like the gray flannelled suburbanite who catches the 7.45 every morning. Well, why don’t they go whole hog and move into the city? I say there should be a place left in this big country of ours where a man can still wear overalls and chew tobacco!\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James looked over his paper when he finished the reading. \u201cAnd isn’t it the truth, Ellen\u201d.  he chuckled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And March, the minx, continues to bring farm-folks her quiet or wind-blown gray days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Ellen’s Diary, March 14th, 1958<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Islandnewspapers.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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