School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 162
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- We have a churn at home. It is a barrel churn. It is about four feet high. We have it for the past four years.
We churn twice a week in the Summer time and once a week in the Winter time. We have a separator at home and we separate every night and morning.
The cream ripens quicker in the Summer time than in the Winter time.
- In Summer milk is churned twice a week and the churning is done by a man if possible. He moves the dash up and down quickly. Anyone coming at in that time takes a brash at the churn in case they had the evil(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Billis, Co. Cavan
