School: Moyvoughley (roll number 7249)
- Location:
- Moyvoughly, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Fhlannagáin
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- The farmer takes great care of animals especially the cows.
There are many kinds of herbs. Ivy leaves are able to cure warts if boiled. They are also good for cleaning black or navy clothes.
Celery is good for rheumatism.
Watercress is good for the blood.
Garlic is also used for cough and consumption.
Dandelion is also a cure for warts.
The leaves of dandelion is good for feeding young turkeys.
Hemlock is a dangerous weed if it were eaten either by animals or human beings they would die.
The withered leaves of laburnum tree are very dangerous for farm animals.
Sweet elder spreads very rapidly.
Rabbit-food grows on ditches is also a poisonous weed.
Hay-seed is good for the land. Variegated-laurels are poisonous.
