School: Kilmacoo, Avoca
- Location:
- Kilmacoo, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chosgair
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- My father is a farmer he always sows about one acre and a half of ground under potatoes.He has to plough the ground and then the harrows it well and the he ploughs and harrows it again. then he makes the drills with a plough then the manure is put in the drills and when the manure is drawn out the seed is put down.They are put down in the drills about a foot or more apart then the manure is spread on the seed and then there is articial manure is put out and a man covers the drills with a plough.About two week after the drills are leaveled with a harrow and one or two horses then they are grubed with a gruber and after a few days they are moulded.When the stalks are nearly there ful hight they are(continues on next page)
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- Seamus Mackin
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- Male