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School: Craughwell (B)

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Craughwell, Co. Galway
Teacher:
E. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0035, Page 0137

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    The Hoose
    1) To give them a spoon of turpentine every morning.
    2) Give them flaxseed.
    3) Mix a half-pint of linseed-oil; half an ounce of ginger and a couple of spoons of turpentine and give the mixture to the cattle
    Foot-rot in sheep
    1) Tallow or grease and ground blue-stone and a little branding tar mixed together and put to the rot.
    Sore eyes in sheep
    (Tobba) Tobacco juice cures it
    Warts in cattle
    1) Tie them with a piece of end and put Nitric acid on them.
    2) Melt some blue-stone and mix it with butter-milk and put it on them.
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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. animal husbandry (~2,587)
            1. medicine for animal sicknesses (~175)
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