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1. The Potato Crop (continued)

   

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   a spade and they children picks them. My father puts the potatoes into heaps and covers then with rushes and then covers them with clay and a shovel.
   The potatoes are brought in to a barn during the winter.

   

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2. The Care of Our Farm Animals

   

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   My father keeps alot of domestic animals on the farm such as cows, calves, sheep, horses, pigs and alot of fowl.
   The cow is the most useful because she gives us milk and she is the one the farmer cares the best.
   My father keep five cows on the farm and he feeds them daily with hay and straw

   The cowhouse is often called the lyre it is white washed once a year and it is kept very clean

   There is a big long trunk of a tree called a lame going from one side of the wall to the other side and there are four or five big wooden sticks nailed on to it and there are iron chains...

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. animal husbandry (~2,587)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Harte

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   Mr Martin Mitchell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo