School: An Charraig
- Location:
- Carrick, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Tiománaí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0987, Page 141
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- (continued from previous page)crop is moulded again About July the potatoes are sprayed with bluestone and washing soda or lime
A machine is used nowadays but long ago they used to be sprayed with besoms that is heather
(d) The Digging
When Autumn comes. The farmer digs the potatoes with a spade and then in the evening picks them up into a bucket and puts them in a cart and puts them in a hole
When they have the hole about thirty perches long they cover the potatoes with earth. They bring them home as they want them. They leave them in it until they are in the way next spring. Then they bring them into a house in the garden.
(e) The Storage
The farmers first dig the potatoes Then puts them in heaps into pits They seperate the bad ones from the good ones
They leave them in the pits(continues on next page)
