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1. Potato sorter

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A potato sorter (pulled by horse) shakes potatoes of similar sizes into sacks during the potato harvest on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.

2. Sacks of potatoes

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Full sacks of potatoes, lined up on wagon, ready for storage or shipping. A man rests on a sack for the photo, taken on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.

3. Irrigating potatoes

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Jesse Sherman, at left, owner of the Sherman Brothers Ranch, standing next to Skeet Koger, doing the irrigating of the potato crop. The potatoe types were "Red McClure and Ohio." By Marie Louise Ryan Special to The Sopris Sun "In the late 1800s Thomas McClure left his family against their wishes. He did so with a single motivation: to strike out on his own in the New World. He sold a prize brood sow to buy passage from Little Kenny, Ireland, and...

4. Potato harvesting, horse teams

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Horse teams turning furrows while harvesters fill sacks with potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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