School: An Cruachán (roll number 5243)
- Location:
- Croaghan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Chearra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 357
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- (continued from previous page)take out weeds, also to leave the drills so that the new clay will stay up on the ridge. If the soil is very lumpy there is a heavy plank of wood drawn up and down the alley of the drills with a man standing on it to increase the weight to crush the lumps and make the clay fine.
They are then run up with a plough. This finishes moulding.
Potatoes are sprayed with a spray to keep away blight disease. The spray is made of a solution of bluestone and soda. The washing soda is steeped in hot water, then both are put in a barrel. It is then put in the sprayer which is strapped on the man's back. He holds the hose and pumps the solution out of the nozzle on the leaves of the plants.
- Collector
- Ena Wasson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Croaghan, Co. Donegal
