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Picking by hand after the digger goes through, in 1994 - click
Photo: Bangor Daily News file photo |
That's the way, right up there, the mechanical digger goes through a row and people of all ages picked by hand. Schools in Aroostook County had a one week vacation so the school kids could pick and earn money. It was that way for what seems forever. Now the machinery is different and some can dig
and pick up to 24 rows at a time; even in rocky Maine. But some farms, unable to pay big money for a mechanical harvester still do it the "old-fashioned" way.
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The old style digger in 1994 - click
Photo: Bangor Daily News file photo |
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A Potato House (storage) in the 1880's by the rail line
Photo: Penobscot Marine Museum |
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