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                <text>&lt;em&gt;Potatoes: Acreage, Production, Value, Farm Dispostion, Jan. 1 Stocks (1866-1950)&lt;/em&gt;. Statistical Bulletin #122. US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics (March 1953): 3.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FnsWAAAAYAAJ&amp;amp;newbks=1&amp;amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;pg=PA1901&amp;amp;dq=potatoes:+acreage,+production+1866-1950&amp;amp;hl=en#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=potatoes%3A%20acreage%2C%20production%201866-1950&amp;amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Courtesy of Google Books&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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                <text>Migrant farmworker tossing what appears to be potatoes onto a conveyor belt at the Roy Gibson Farm in Wayland, NY. Gibson was a long-time member of the Steuben County Potato Growers Association and had a reputation as a relatively fair employer and proof "that you can make money and not exploit your workers." Along with his crew leader, Roy Moore, the labor camp was said to be "more tightly run and the crew boss is fair with his people. What they earn, they get" (Peg Gallagher, "Migrant Workers," &lt;em&gt;Elmira Star-Gazette&lt;/em&gt; 25 Oct. 1981: 4B-5B). Still due to the mechanized nature of the harvest, work was physically demanding, repetitive, and low-paid.</text>
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