School: Irishtown
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Margaret McNally
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The potato crop
Every year my father sows potatoes. He sows almost an acre. Kerrs Pinks are his favourite seeds. He says the amount varies every year. If the year is dry he wil have a very good yield but if is wet the quantity will not be so much and the potatoes are soft and not starchy.
In Winter he digs up the field with a spade and the repeats this two or three times. He has it nice and soft for the frost to loosen it. Then he leaves it there for a few months. With a spade he marks out ridges. Some times he has them ploughed. My brother cuts the "hinntins" and turns the into the ridges. He draws out manure from the farm yard and makes little heaps of it on the ridges and leaves a distance of of about half a perch between every heap. He then spreads the manure with a graip. Then the potatoes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Modranstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Christy Kelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Modranstown, Co. Westmeath
