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School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)

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Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 280

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  3. XML “The Care of Our Farm Animals”
  4. XML “Churning”

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  1. The Care of Our Farm Animals (continued)

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    clipped we brush him down.
    When we are calling the pigs we say "Hurish Hurish" for the hens we say "Chuck Chuck" for the turkeys we say "Yib Yib.
    When my mother is putting down hatching eggs she puts a mark on the eggs so that if another hen laid in the nest she know the egg that the hen laid.
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  2. Churning

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Lenihan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Delvin, Co. Westmeath