Scoil: Ceathrú na Laithighe (Brownsgrove) (uimhir rolla 12138)

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1. Potatoes

   

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   We sow potatoes on our farm every year. It is my father who prepares the land and we assist him when he sows them. In this district
   potatoes are sown both in ridges and drills; in ridges in the garden round the houses and in drills out in the fields. Sometimes also Rayland potatoes are sown in ridges out in the fields.
   When potatoes are sown in drills the farmer first ploughs a piece of land; then he spring-harrows it and reploughs it again. After this he harrows it again with a spring harrow and finally rolls it. Now it is fit for drilling. The first ploughing can be done as early as October but the drills are not opened until the middle of the month of April. Farmyard manure is now brought out in a cart and left in lumps here and there along the drills. Next the manure is scattered evenly along the drills with "dung forks" or "pitch forks" which are forks with four prongs.
   Drills are usually opened with a double plough and sometimes with a single plough when a double plough cannot be found. The drills are opened with two horses. A furrow is first ploughed and then after that the man opens the drills doing half a drill each side of the double plough; in the single plough he can only do half a drill at a time and by working with a double plough two half-drills are opened at a time.
   After the farmyard manure is thoroughly scattered artificial manure is put over the farmyard manure. There is

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   Béarla

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   Mary Mc Gagh

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   An Bheitheach (Browne), Co. na Gaillimhe

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   Patrick Mc Gagh

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   An Bheitheach (Browne), Co. na Gaillimhe