School: Virginia (C )

Location:
Virginia, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Mrs B. Farrelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 512

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    Churning is done by the hand and the dash is moved up and down. When the dash is pulled up and if it is clean the butter is made.
    The buttermilk is drank and the calves and pigs get some and people make bread and whey with it.
    We have a churn at home. It is about twenty inches long and sixteen inches broad. The sides of it are round and it is sixteen years old.
    It is a cylinder churn and the parts are the dash the handle and the lid. There is no mark on the side or bottom of the churn.
    Butter is made twice each week in Summer and
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
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    English