Gallery 2 - Sense of belonging and taking roots into Greater Madawaska (1860-1960)
16. Drummond
Potato field in full bloom (am_2323)
This photo of a potato field in bloom was taken on the farm of Lucien S. Beaulieu located five
kilometres from the church on Tobique Road and a few kilometres from the Salmon River. Since the
flowers are white, the potato in this field are Katahdins but Lucien also planted Cobblers and
Mountains. The field is very neat as the Beaulieu children and their great-aunt Mary Beaulieu
Leclerc walk alongside the rows and pulled out wild weeds called moutarde. Fields were
periodically sprayed with a chemical (D.D.T.) diluted in water to prevent diseases such as the
blight. The hired hand Albéric Laforest drives one of the two Farmall tractors used on Lucien's
farm. Photo taken around 1950. Lent by the Beaulieu family.
