School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)
- Location:
- Ballyfin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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- (continued from previous page)if you put a blindeye near your eye you will go blind in a very short time. The blindeyes nearly always grow in potato drills.
Nettles.
You may guess that a nettle is a nice weed if you just look at it. It does a lot of harm in a crop of potatoes, because it stings you when you go to pull it. Nettles mostly grow in ditches .
"Scutch -grass."
Farmers say that scutch-grass is the worst weed growing because it spreds and makes the soil bad. The scutch-grass grows in nearly every(continues on next page)
