School: Coolanarney
- Location:
- Coolanarney, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: D. Mac Gairbhíth
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- (continued from previous page)some bought manure. First they plough & harrow the land & clean the ground, then they open the drills with the plough.
We never use a wooden plough. People help each other in sowing the potatoes. Some spread the manure & others spread the seed. The people harrow down the top of the drills & when the potato stalks grows up they're moulded. In the Summer they spray them. They take out the potatoes in October. They take them out with a spuddler & then they get baskets & two pick into every basket. They draw them home and make a pit in the garden & put straw & clay over them. Some people sell some of them & get three or four pounds per ton.
