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School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)

Location:
Three Trees, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Caitlín A. Scott
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 424

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  1. Treatment of Growing Crop during the Summer Months and the Late Autumn (continued)

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    by one horse.
    There is a handle on each harrow for the man to hold them on the drill.
    Small farmers that have no horses rakes the lumps off the drills with a grape.
    Afterwards a man moulds the up on the drills with a drill plough to cover the buds which are bare.
    Then they are left until the the buds come through the soil.
    When the potatoe buds are about five inches high they are hoed.
    A hoe is a tool which is used for tearing the weeds of the drills.
    Most of the people hoe them in the Month of June.
    When the potatoes are all hoed the clay is moulded up along side of the potatoe stems to keep them from breaking when there is windy weather.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sandie Allen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Three Trees, Co. Donegal