School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- An Féar Bán, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Sr Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0814, Page 040
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- There are potatoes growing in our garden. My father prepares the ground. The ground is always manured. The potatoes are sowed in drills. A spade is always used in our garden. The spades are bought in a shop, but some of the farmers get the local blacksmith to make them. When sowing the garden you first select the seed as there are many different varieties. We usually sow a stone of early sort of potatoes called "Garden Fillers." As those potatoes do not keep we sow a later class called "Champions." In fine weather the potatoes do well in our garden but in wet seasons they all get black and rot.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Féar Bán, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
