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School: Áit Tighe Ruaidhrí (roll number 9014)

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Attirory, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
S. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271, Page 186

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    In order to manure the potatoes better bag manure is shaken on. The drills are closed when the potatoes seed are spread under the dung. The potatoes are snagged before they are cut so that one stalk would grow.
    Too much hot weather is not the best for the growth of the young potatoes. They should be sown in April in rain and heat together so that they would get a good start to grow. When the stalks are green they are sprayed over with a "beesom" or sometimes with a sprayer to save them from blight.
    Tommy Glynn,
    Castlepark,
    Ballinasloe.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tommy Glynn
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinasloe, Urban, Co. Galway