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Recording Details: Ray Brooks T3 [Tape Three]:

SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:03:12 Discussion about apples continues on from Tape Two, with mention of his grandfather; apples, apple orchard, apple varieties. 
 ***The tape appears to have stopped at 00:03:12.

SIDE A 00:03:25 -- 00:04:47 Discussion about his Massey-Harris tractor, with mention of horses; Massey-Harris, tractors. 

SIDE A 00:04:47 -- 00:07:18 Discussion about potato picking; potato picking, potato farming. 

SIDE A 00:07:18 -- 00:09:11 Discussion about Parker's Foundry; Parker's Foundry, plow shears, Georgetown plow. 
 ***The tape appears to have stopped at 00:09:11

SIDE A 00:09:11 -- 00:10:35 Discussion about potato picking continues, with mention of a beater digger; beater digger, potato picking, potato farming, farm machinery. 

SIDE A 00:10:35 -- 00:12:41 Discussion about pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; Paris Green, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, lime, flour, sprayer, arsenic, lead, DDT, Bluestone. 

SIDE A 00:12:41 -- 00:14:47 Discussion about the starch factory being closed due to pollution; starch factory, pollution. 

SIDE A 00:14:47 -- 00:16:38 Discussion about manure spreaders, with mention of horses; horses, manure spreader, horse trading. 

SIDE A 00:16:38 -- 00:18:48 Discussion about horses, with mention of the traveling man, horse breeding, and a fight at the horse races; Carney, Sir Knight, Happy George, horse breeding, traveling man, fight, horse races, horses. 

SIDE A 00:18:48 -- 00:22:47 Discussion about hockey, with mention of a team from Murray Harbour; hockey, Murray Harbour, Beach Point. 

SIDE A 00:22:47 -- 00:23:38 Discussion about baseball; baseball. 

SIDE A 00:23:39 -- 00:25:14 Discussion about mills, and a story about an accident with a planer at a sawmill; sawmill, planer, accident, gristmill. 

SIDE A 00:25:14 -- 00:26:27 Discussion about Dr. MacInytre and a story about an operation using the car headlights; operation, Dr. MacIntyre, appendicitis. 

SIDE A 00:26:27 -- 00:28:13 A story about a makeover of clothing; whale bone corsets, clothing makeover. 

SIDE A 00:28:13 -- 00:29:44 Discussion about black oats, race horses, and flour mills; black oats, race horses. 
 ***The tape appears to have stopped at 00:29:44.

SIDE A 00:29:44 -- 00:31:47 Discussion about wool and sheep; sheep, wool, fleece press, Shropshire. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:47.

SIDE B 00:00:31:56 -- 00:32:57 Discussion about pigs; pigs, sow. 

SIDE B 00:32:57 -- 00:35:07 Discussion about cats, with stories about weaning foxes and a cat finding its way home; cats, foxes. 

SIDE B 00:35:07 -- 00:36:43 Discussion about dogs, and a story about a dog saving people them a fire; fire, dogs. 

SIDE B 00:36:43 -- 00:38:28 Discussion about snow storms, with mention of stuck trains; 1923, snow storms, trains, stuck trains, deep snow, Sensabaugh, roundhouse. 

SIDE B 00:38:28 -- 00:42:44 Discussion about pigs and butchering; pigs, superstitions, phases of the moon, pigs, butchering, ham, curing ham, meat, haggis, tripe, head cheese, jelly, sweetbread. 

SIDE B 00:42:44 -- 00:45:01 Discussion about meat peddlers; meat peddlers, curing meat, meat. 

SIDE B 00:45:01 -- 00:47:18 Discussion about keeping food without refrigeration; Bella Brooks, white sand, canned food, keeping food. 

SIDE B 00:47:18 -- 00:49:07 Discussion about naming children after their doctors; Dr. Bonnell, Dr. Brehaut, names, blood transfusion, Lorne Bonnell White. 

SIDE B 00:49:07 -- 00:55:25 Discussion about different stores and businesses in Murray Harbour; tailors, Murray River, Murray Harbour, stores, Roy Brooks, mutton factory, Prowse, Fraser, canned chicken, McGee, can factory, blacksmith, tannery, schooners, wharves, shipping, exhibitions. 

SIDE B 00:55:25 -- 01:00:05 Discussion about the earthquake of 1929, with mention of wells going dry and eels; earthquake, 1929, dry wells, eels, Mrs. Billard, tidal wave. 

SIDE B 01:00:05 -- 01:02:13 Discussion about Churchill's Cigars, with mention of Mrs. Billard's family; Mrs. Billard, Churchill's Cigars, cigars. 

SIDE B 01:02:13 -- 01:03:42 Discussion about his wife Ruth's love of cigar smoke and how they met; cigars, Ruth Brooks. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:42. ***Tape ends mid-sentence.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Brooks, David "Ray"

Playing Time:
01:03:42

Interview Date(s):
2003-11-10

Interview Summary:
This is the third of four tapes with David "Ray" Brooks of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Ray begins by talking about apples, tractors, horses, potato farming, pesticides, hockey, doctors, sheep, and wool. He then talks about cats and dogs, snow storms, buterching pigs and cattle, meat, and food storage. He also tells about stores and businesses in Murray Harbour, the 1929 earthquake, Churchill's cigars, and his wife Ruth.

Place(s) Discussed:
Murray Harbour, PE; Murray River, PE; Beach Point, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1930s, 1923, 1929

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