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School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)

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Adamstown, Co. Wexford
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D. Curtis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 111

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  1. Farm Implements (continued)

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    The drill plough is very much like the wheel-plough, except that there are two mould-boards on it.
    Drill-ploughs are drawn by two horses, and they are made in Wexford by "Pierce."
    The Phosphate Sower :
    The phosphate sower is used for sowing phosphate and lime.
    It is made up of a body, two big wheels, and two shafts.
    The body is made of a box about five or five and a half feet long.
    It is about one and a quarter feet wide, and a foot high.
    The wheels are made of iron, and they are about four and a
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
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