When local resident Gerald Eckland set to work on Jean Paulson's 120 year old potato planter it certainly didn't look like it does today.
According to Eckland the circa 1890 potato planting machine, which he thinks is a Eureka model, was rusted, the parts were ceased up and nothing worked. "Only the wheels turned," he said.
The two horse drawn potato planter was purchased by Paulson's father Dick Carroll in the 1930's from the Fraser Valley.
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