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School: Beacán (C.)

Location:
Bekan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 288

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    eye in each part, they discovered that by doing this the potato would grow much larger. Then a man goes out in the field with the slits and a spade, he makes a hole on the ridge with the spade, and drops a slit into it, and so on until he has his potatoes set. For drills, the ground is ploughed and harrowed well, next it is rowed up into drills with a plough, and opened again to put the manure and slits into them. the slits are left on the manure about one foot apart.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Higgins
    Gender
    Female