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the farmers dig them with a digging machine, that a pair of horses would be drawing, and some labouring men would pick the potatoes, and put them into a pit then when Winter would be coming, the farmers would bring in the potatoes and put them into a shed. The names of some potatoes are Champions for eating Grey Scots, Aran Banners, Hounders Kerry pinks, Blue headsEda Mangan (13 years)
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In my district there are a lot of potatoes grown, every farmer grows an acre of potatoes and big farmers grow two acres. The way the soil is prepared is, first the farmers plough and manure the soil, next he makes drills out of some of the soil and ridges out of more of it. Next he gets slits and leaves them on the drills and when he has potatoes on all the soil he closes it in with a plough. The farmer has all his own implements. He buys the spade in a shop it is a four-cornered article like a knife with a wooden handle on it. When the young stalks of potatoes are growing in Summer the farmers put blue stone and washing soda on them to keep away the blight from them, as it would destroy them. When the potatoes are fully grown

There was once a farmer and he had a servant boy working for him. This boy knew no English or he could not understand it.
One market dat the farmer sent his boy to the market to sell potatoes as he could not go himself. Before leaving he gave him some instructions.
He told him if he was asked what kind of potatoes he had for sale say "Irish Queens."
If he was asked "Are they good for eating?" he had to say "The dickens are better praitie ever you ate." If he was asked "What are you asking for them?", he was told to say, "I'm selling them at sixpence halfpenny a stone."
The farmer told him that was all he wanted to know so the boy went off to the market. He wasn't long standing there when a man came along and this is