GOIN' TO THE CORNER newer machinery was installed they could grade 6000 ten-pound bags in three to four hours. There was a basement under the original building where there were bins to store potatoes. Canvas chutes were used to transfer the potatoes from trucks to the storage bins. The canvas kept the potatoes from bruising. The potatoes were sent to the main floor for grading by means of an escalator; sometimes escalators would carry the graded and bagged potatoes to the third floor to be stored. All this work was very labour intensive. Farmers could rent bins but the warehouse crew always did the grading. The basement was not used for storage after they began to use pallet boxes that could be moved around the main floor with the forklift. On rainy or stormy days when farmers were unable to deliver potatoes, the crew graded from the pallet boxes. The new additions to the building allowed the unloading from trucks on to the main floor where grading was done. This made the work less labour intensive. During the fall harvest as many as twenty-five or thirty trucks would be waiting to be unloaded, which was on a "first come, first served" basis. In later years Rennie's began making appointments with farmers to bring in so many loads at an allotted time. If different varieties were coming in with each truckload, then the equipment had to be disinfected. This took up too much time. By making appointments opera¬ tions went more smoothly. 114 R.H. Rennie and Sons warehouse after 1978 Gary Rennie Coll- I