Volume: CBÉ 0189
- Date
- 1935
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0189, Page 202
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- Potatoes -the width of a drill is generally twenty-eight inches.
The manure is put out first in heaps, the it is spread out along the furrows.
When farmers are busy they do what is called "sliding on them. That is they put down the seed and just put a light shake of clay on them with a shovel and leave them so. When he has time then the farmer spreads the manure over the seed. All the farmers keep the seed potatoes in little timber boxes with handles on them like handle of basket, and store them up and leave them shoot. Before they sow them they put them out under the sun for a few days to harden the sprouts. They bring the seed boxes out to the headland. Each box would hold about a weight of potatoes. They scarcely ever cut the potatoes into [?], but pick out the middle sized ones and sow them whole.
