School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)
- Location:
- The Rower, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Cuirrín
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- XML School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge
- XML Page 130
- XML “The Preparing of the Soil for the Sowing of the Potato Crop”
- XML “The Care of the Growing Crop”
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- Collector
- Thomas Lyng
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Lyng
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- As the potato crop is the principal crop in this district the farmer has to take good care of it.
When it comes over the ground he has to weed it. Then after some time it is sprayed with a spraying machine, or in gardens it is sprayed with what is called a spraying broom. When the farmer is spraying with a broom he(continues on next page)