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School: An Baile Mór (roll number 11193)

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Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
D. E. Tate
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 253

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    The manure is put out on the ground early in the winter. The manure is put into little heaps; then it is spread on the ground. Then the ground is ploughed. Then it is harrowed and drilled. There are two kinds of ploughs, drilling ploughs and the ploughing ploughs. When the drills are made there are fertilising manures put on the potatoes. Then the potatoes are put into the drills about nine or ten inches apart. When they come up they are grubbed to
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