School: Naomh Baoithin, Tullydish (roll number 3160)
- Location:
- Tullydush Upper, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal P. Ó Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)to another vessel and given to the calf to drink. It has to be helped to drink as it does not know of itself how to drink at first so some person puts his finger into its mouth and keeps the mouth in the milk and by allowing it to suck the finger it sucks the milk as well.
The cows udder is not milked completely dry as she might then take milk fever. Again her milk is not used for human consumption as it is to strong and a sickly yellow colour.
The day after the calf is born beastins are made that is some milk with with water added to it it is put on to boil and forms into lumps which are called beastings.
When the calf is about two months old it gets some buttermilk and later removed to the byre or cow house. This is a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Burnfoot, Co. Donegal
