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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13

"Former farmer Larry Park talks about how a potato harvester works.  SOURCES Richard W. Judd” AROOSTOOK A Century of Logging in Northen Maine”…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"Others picked the potatoes from the ground and put them in barrels. The hand digger on the right, demonstrated by Mr."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5

"… the potato field, the longer it would take to pick the potatoes. The pickers would make about 25 to 30 cents for a barrel."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"The potatoes would be picked from a section of the field allotted to the picker. If the section is too long, the picker would get behind and probably…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"A man is behind the digger picking potatoes. A full basket of potatoes is being emptied into a barrel. The farm owner, Mr."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 5 of 5

"There were good times in the potato fields and there were also bad times, too. But they always got though it."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 10 of 13

"… meant that there will be a chance to catch up on picking potatoes or to rest or play. This picture shows the Myron Gartley farm in 1976."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"1950Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Potato picker's tickets, ca. 1910Presque Isle Historical Society Up until the 1970s when farms…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"… Potatoes DIGGER LAGS SIFT OUT THE DIRT Picking potatoes, Presque Isle, 1939Presque Isle Historical Society Lags on a Digger X The bed…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"Go back and pick the ones you missed. 8. Don't pick any rotten potatoes. 9. Don't throw potatoes. 10, You're setting your barrels in the wrong row, I…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 3 of 4

"… and her brothers and sisters were old enough to pick potatoes, her mother and father would make her clothes."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 4 of 4

"… Isle Historical Society To get money, she picked potatoes during harvest, and also she babysat."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1946

"Ice picks are used to guide ice chunks from the stream to a conveyor. The conveyor takes the ice to the ice storage building shown in the photograph."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life

"There were four boys and two girls. They picked potatoes in the end of September and early October. They picked strawberries in early June."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"They had to erase all of the chalkboards and pick up the classroom after school. After school, Glenna, her sisters, brothers, and friends would all…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"He told the boys not to pick that apple, “or we’d get our butts kicked.” There was a window on the house facing the tree with the apple."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"She liked to pick flowers in a local field, and watch the clouds go by. Growing up, my mother didn’t have a TV or toys."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"Shipbuilding activity picked up on the river, and wharves were built for the transfer of goods to the trading vessels."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"Potatoes had given them a bigger profit when the times were getting hard. By 1879 over $25,000 worth of potatoes had come through Guilford."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"Many trains stopped there each day to pick up local products, or to deliver dry goods, furniture and other items to local residents."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… returned to Islesboro from the mainland to pick berries, dig for clams, pick sweet grass for baskets and split ash for containers."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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