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School: Mount Talbot (roll number 14056)

Location:
Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
M. Ó Héimhthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0267, Page 220

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    In this area the men do not help each other in sowing, in spreading the manure for the potatoes or in "sticking" them.
    When the potatoes are about a fortnight sown they are moulded that is. covered with clay again. After a while they break up through the soil again. When they are about a foot and a half high they are sprayed in June. They are sprayed with a mixture of eight lbs of sulphate of copper and ten lbs of washing soda dissolved in forty gallons of water. In the month of July all the early potatoes are dug. When the work-man has them picked they are stored in pits.
    The potatoes we sow are:- Aran Banners, Kerr Pink, and Leinster Wonder.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Eimhthigh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    M. Heavey
    Age
    55
    Address
    Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon