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School: Baile Aodha (C.). Inis (roll number 13419)

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Ballyea, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Bríd, Bean Uí Dhuibhgeanáin
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    into the furrows. If weeds grow between the potatoes they are scuffled with a scuffler in order to leave the growth to the potatoes.
    Next they are landed. Then they are sprayed twice or thrice to prevent the blight from harming them. A barrel of spray is made from a pound of washing soda and a pound of blue-stone. The washinggsoda is put through the blue stone in order to counteract the poison that is in the blue-stone. The blight is a disease which appears in black spots on the leaves of the stalks.
    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
    Informant
    John Reidy
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Teermaclane, Co. Clare