School: An Cruachán (roll number 5243)
- Location:
- Croaghan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Chearra
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- (continued from previous page)opens the drills with a drill plough.
The manure is put into the bottom of the drills. The potatoes are cut with a knife they have to be sprouted before they are cut. The potatoes are placed on the top of the manure in the alleys of the drills, they have to be a foot apart. Then guano is sown on top. Then the drills are closed with a plough.
First the potatoes are rolled then they are moulded to keep away weeds. Then they are hoed with a hoe to keep down weeds also.
About a month after this the potatoes are sprayed with a sprayer. The spray is made of bluestone and washing soda, the soda is steeped in hot water, these are put into a barrel of water then they put the spray into the sprayers. The man holds(continues on next page)- Collector
- Ena Wasson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Croaghan, Co. Donegal