School: Kells (Parochial) (roll number 5062)

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1. Churning

   

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   We had a churn at home. It was about two feet long and about two feet high and the sides were round, the butter is made once a week, diferent people do the churning it takes about half an hour and it is done by hand. The things for making the butter is called beaters, water is added; and it is taken out with padds.

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   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. butter and churns (~3,280)

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2. Churning

   

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   We used to have a churn about six years ago. It was about fourteen inches in diameter
   The butter would be made twice weekly. When mother would be churning a while her arm would get tired and a woman (widow) would come in and say "Will I gi ya a hand Ma'am?.
   There was a farm near ours, and, in the dairy there was a ring of white on the roof, two gables and the floor the

   

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