School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- An Féar Bán, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Sr Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0814, Page 043
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- (continued from previous page)The drills are closed and the chain harrow is rubbed on the top of the drills. The potatoes are wed and grubbed after about a month. When the stalks are up over the ground they are sprayed. Washing soda is got and melted. Then blue stone is put into a barrel.
The mixture is stirred for a long time. The sprayer comes along and the mixture is put into the barrel of the sprayer. He sprays the potatoes out of this: to prevent blight.
In the harvest the potatoes are taken out and put into pits. Then they are sorted. The small ones and green ones are given to the pigs, and the big ones are kept for table use.
- Collector
- Katie Dunican
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aondroim, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
