School: Áth Treasna (B.) (roll number 11236)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 165
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- (continued from previous page)little lime is usually shaken over the sciolans to keep the sap from oozing out of them.
Before planting potatoes in "Taobh Fhóds" all the sods must be folded back to their former position.
Well-rotted farm-yard manure is then spread on the tops of the ridges. If the manure is not sufficiently well-rotted, a little artificial manure is applied. The sciolans are spread in lines of threes with a distance of nine inches between them, and a distance of about a foot between every row of sciolans. When all the sciolans are spread in this manner, the sods are replaced and the whole is covered with fine earth shovelled up from the furrows, which should have been dug and made fine before the manure was spread.
When planting potatoes in ploughed ridges the ridges must first be "hacked." That means that the crests of the sods are broken down and the tops of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Donal Shine
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Liscongill, Co. Cork
