School: Tyrrellspass (2) (roll number 13743)
- Location:
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Payne
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- "Spraying Potatoes"
People spray their potatoes to have a good crop for if you didn't spray your potatoes they would be all black. There are two ways of spraying potatoes one with a horse and the other with a thing like a tin can. There are two men that I know that have a sprayer one is named Bagnall and the other called Gavigan. Some people spray their potatoes once and some spray twice and some three times. Long ago the people didn't spray their potatoes and they had a potatoe famine. If you want to spray a rood of potatoes, you get forty gallons of water and 10 lbs of washing soda, and then you pit it into the barrell of water. Put the blue stone into the barrell and then start spraying. George Payne aged 8.
Tyrrellspass 27-6-38
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- Collector
- Fred Payne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Giltrap
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
