School: Clais (roll number 8692)
- Location:
- Clash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Cristíona Ní Chearbhalláinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0536, Page 113
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- The is a weed that grows in the corn. It is called charlock. It comes up like turnips then blooms a yellow flower. It grows about a foot high and it chokes the corn and then the corn dies. There is a weed called the dockleaf it destroys the crops and the seeds of it spreads qucikly. The ragweed grows in grass fields. It is a cure for the jaundice. It has to be boiled in new milk for four hours. There is an herb that grows on a wall called houseleaf. It cures sprains but it has to be put down and drawn like tea for two hours. There is an herb called garlick. It is considered a good cure for cattle affected with the blood murrain. It has to be drawing in boiling water.
Squitchgrass is a very bad weed it is very hard to get(continues on next page)
