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School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)

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Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Ambrose Madders
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0650, Page 196

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  4. XML “The Potato Crop”

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  2. The Potato Crop

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    The big farmers around my district sow from twenty acres of potatoes up every year. The small farmers sow six of seven acres. The farmers' men prepare the ground for the potatoes. They do not manure the ground before they plough it. All the farmers sow the potatoes in drills. But the gardeners set them in ridges because if they set them in drills they would use too much ground. The farmers used wooden ploughs long ago because they had no iron ploughs. Some of the farmers long ago
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