Scoil: Loughshinny (uimhir rolla 8434)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Potato Crops (ar lean)

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   is put in the alleys of the drills and the seed is dropped on top of the dung and is covered up with the plough. If a farmer has a small bit of ground such as half an acre he makes ridges in it. First of all he digs the ground fine and digs trenches [?] it about the feet in depth and throws clay that is in the [?] ridges on top of the ground. The seed potatoes are sometimes cut if they are very big. They are called cut seed. In this district farms help each other in setting the potatoes and in making the hay.
   When potatoes are set about one month the farmer grubs and harrows the drills and breaks the lumps with a roller. He weeds the potatoes and rolls the drills again. Then he clays them with a plough and two horses. Just before the potatoes comes over the groudn he saddle-harrows the drills and knocks the big lumps down into the alleys of the drills and breaks them with the roller and clays them again. When the stalks are meeting on the

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   Thomas Mac Nally

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