School: Streete (roll number 11656)
- Location:
- Street, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Áine Finnegan
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- In winter the animals have to be cared for as much as children.
The following are the animals found on a farm. cows and calves, horses, and sheep pigs, goats, dogs, cats, hens ducks, geese, and turkeys, we have two cows.
They are tied by a chain around their neck.
We feed them with hay and turnips mixed with cracked oats, we give them hay three times a day, we grow the hay and turnips and oats on the farm.
Only some of our cows are named, we call some of them after the man from whom we bought. Kelly is the name of one, because we bought her from a man of that name. We call another The Three spin cow, because(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bertie Anderson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Street, Co. Westmeath
