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School: Ceathrú Mhór (roll number 16289)

Location:
Carrowmore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Thomas F. O' Hara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 282

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    and any farmer who wishes may hire them for a day. They charge about four shillings a stack.
    Seventy years ago there were no artificial manures. They farmers dug up their land in sods. When the sods were quite dry they gathered them into heaps and burned them. Then they scattered the ashes on the field. If a farmer now has now enough farm-yard manure he goes to the shop and buys artificial manure.
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