There was a great deal of potato farming in Northeastern Ohio when I was growing up. Many, many kids, parents, grandparents, etc. made money in the fall by picking up potatos after the diggers brought them out of the ground.
We would crawl from one end of the field to the other dragging either a gunny sack or a bushel basket. When we had the sack or basket full, we'd put a numbered card on it that we had been issued by the boss before we began. As the men picked up the sacks or baskets, they'd pick the numbered cards off them.
At the end of the day the field boss would count up your cards and pay you for the work. It varied from six to ten cents per sack or basket depending on the yield.
We were required to have Social Security cards. I got mine at that time. That was in 1957 when I was 13 years old.
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