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School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)

Location:
Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máirtín Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 189

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    ragweed, preshaugh, rushes, nettles, and dandaloin. Nettles are sometimes substituted for cabbage and are very healthy. Salad is made from dandalion and it is good for the blood. Ragweed is supposed to make a great poltice. Garlick is supposed to cure turkeys with the gapes. Dogweed would cure the sting of a nettle by rubbing it on the injured part.
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    The most harmful weeds growing on our farm at home are:-
    Pennyleaf is useful for ointment. Sponk is a very harmful weed. Skutch grass impoverishes the land and spreads rapidly. Dogroot is a harmful weed. Thistles grown on good land. Dandaloin is not a harmful weed. Creepers do not harm the soil but the spread every where.
    Buttercups are not a bad weed.
    Nettles ae a bad weed.
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