School: Murrintown (roll number 13707)
- Location:
- Murntown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chléirigh
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- Every farmer in my district sows potatoes. About an acre is usually sown. Even the half acres at the back of labourers cottages are sown with them.The ground is ploughed with a two horse plough to a depth of about a foot. Then it is harrowed with a common harrow, and then with a spring tooth one, and then the drills are made with a drill plough, that is one with two mould boards on it. Farm manure and phosphate are placed in the drills, the phosphate on top. Then the potatoes are sown directly on top nine inches or so apartBig potatoes are cut and the cut edges dipped in phosphate. The drills are covered in with a plough.A wooden plough was never used in my districtThe potatoes usually sown in my district are, - British Queens, Kerr's Pinks, Presidents, and Arran Banners.
Champions, which failed in the Famine, are seldom heard of.(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dennistown, Co. Wexford