School: Mohill (B.) (roll number 12415)
- Location:
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Francis Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 026
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - In this part of the country farmers grow the same amount of potatoes each year. The farmer or his men prepare the land for the potatoes. When the ground is being prepared farm-yard manure is put on. Potatoes are mostly sown in ridges in the uplands, and drills in the moorland. For ridges they turn two sods inwards about three feet apart. Then the manure is put between the two sods. Next they put the "slits" on the manure, then they plough a sod which makes [?] to heart the ridges. Drills are farmed with a plough. Moorland is brittle and the farmer takes his horses and turns two- sods tightly together which form a drill. A spade is not used at the(continues on next page)
