Ernest Rayner digging potatoes at Horatio Waites '. Mr. Waite 's grandson Harold Champion is on digger with Mr. Rayner . emptied into bags or barrels. Potato planters and harvesters, bulk potato boxes and escalators have all been beneficial aids in potato growing. The old Maclntyre potato, blue in color, was a favorite. The white potato was more easily bruised. When blight attacked the potato crop a sprayer drawn by horses and later by tractor was used to spray the entire field. Today aerial spraying is carried on in some areas. After the potatoes were picked they were stored in bins in cellar or barn, if not sold directly to the potato dealer. These stored potatoes were then graded on a hand-made slat grader. Next a chain grader was manu¬ factured followed by a mechanical grader which graded according to size. The present trend is to package the graded potatoes in paper bags of var¬ ious sizes. Strawberry planter used on Montgomery farm, 1952 22