School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 241
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- (continued from previous page)Chemical manure is then shaken over them. After that the drills are closed with the plough. When they begin to grow you second mould them with a plough. After a few weeks you spray them to keep the blight off them. You let them grow till the stalks wither off them then you dig them out with a spade. Ploughs are used when you have a lot of tillage to do. I never remember to hear of wooden ploughs to be used. There are no wooden ploughs left and the spades are bought in a shop. We dig them out with a spade in most cases, and we get children to pick them. We store them in pits in a long trench in the ground two feet wide and one(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Owen Murtagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Owen Murtagh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
