School: St Peter's, Phibsboro
- Location:
- Phibsborough, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Ss. Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0799, Page 246
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- (continued from previous page)infects the pasture. The poison, though harmless to all other animals, is said to set up fatal disease in sheep.
- Donkeys infected with LiceDonkeys are liable to be verminous infection namely lice. The treatment adopted by Farney farmers was as follows.Boil a quantity of tobacco say tow or three ounces in a couple quarts of water. This solution is vigorously rubbed into the infected parts at regular intervals for a few days after which all traces of vermin will have entirely disappeared.
- The Birth of a Calf:Immediately after a cow has calved it was and is still customary in Farney to sprinkle the new-born calf with a thick coating of oaten meal. The cow licks off the coating and in this way the new-born animal is thoroughly cleaned and all traces of the after-birth adhering to the calf's body are removed.
- Collector
- Séamus Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
