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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 459

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  2. Farming Long Ago

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    In olden days the farmers had a lot of old boggy land that was out in grazing and rough herbs for years. When they were going to labour this land they ploughed the ground early in the spring and when it would be well dried the would set fire to the boggy peat and the burning would spread. It would burn all the top sod into ashes. They they would sow the seed and harrow it with a bush. This was good manure for that year but the next year they would have no crop at all and that impoverished much land around Fanad.
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