Keywords: Mechanics Row
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13
"Tractors were soon pulling two-row diggers so that by the late 1940s there were few one-row diggers in use."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13
"Victor potato digger, Littleton, c. 1920Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Two horses were necessary to pull these early potato diggers. The…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13
"… had a gasoline engine mounted on it to power the mechanical parts. This made the digger easier for the horses to pull."
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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4
"It was almost entirely handwork, with hardly any mechanical assist. This was not a process people went to school to learn about or read a book on how…"
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Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music
"… in the lower level of the Silver Spur Club in Mechanic Falls, making Maine the only state northeast of Nashville to have its own country music hall…"
