School: Drummond
- Location:
- Drummin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: P. Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)year. Dock weeds grow on the farm
In old times nettles were cut for animals. Thorns grow on thistles. Rushes grow in a bog. Harmful herbs grow on wet lands and some of them grow on dry land. It is hard to banish weeds out of a field.
- The most injurious weeds on farms are; the dog roots, yellow buttons, dandelions, thistles and fairyflax. They spread very quickly over the farm. Those weeds except the thistles grow on poor land but the thistles grow on good land. Long ago a weed named crane'sbill was a cure for murrain in cattle. All those weeds poison the soil.
- Collector
- Lizzie Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynabearna, Co. Wexford
- The most harmful weeds on the farm are; the dock weed, the scutch-grass spunk and yellow bottom. They spread quickly and they make land poor. a herb(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ellie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dranagh, Co. Carlow
