School: Achadh na Garron (Aughnagarron) (roll number 5603)
- Location:
- Aghnagarron, Co. Longford
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 307
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- Potatoes are the principal crop grown on our farm.
There is about an acre sown under potatoes each year.
My brother prepares the ground for the potatoes.
The ground is not manured in any way before ploughing.
There are two ways for sowing potatoes namely drills and ridges.
When the farmer is about to make a ridge he puts his plough in proper order he then attaches two horses by means of chains called traces.
After this he ploughs a sod about six inches wide and two inches deep from one end of the field to the other guiding his horses as straight as possible leaving at each end a space known as the headland on which he turns his horses and plough.
After this first scrape called the opening scrape he turns his horses to the right and ploughs another scrape at the back of the first so that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eugene Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dalystown, Co. Longford
