School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)

Location:
Adamstown, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
D. Curtis
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    used for sowing mangolds, turnips, beet, and onion seed.
    It is made of metal, and it is about four or five feet long, and two feet wide, and one and a half feet high.
    It is composed of a body, two small rollers and two handles.
    The body is made of metal and is shaped like a bowl, and it holds about two or three pounds of seed.
    There is a tube coming from the body to the ground, and it is through this the seeds come.
    The bottom of this tube makes a little furrow in the drill into which the seeds fall.
    There are two rollers attached to the body, one in front of the tube and
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
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