School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Mac Giolla Críost
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- (continued from previous page)eat it. There is also a trough with water or skim milk for a drink. They are fed in this way till they are fit for the factory.
We have one hundred and forty hens. We feed them on meal, bran, and potatoes. They lay well from early spring till mid-summer. The chickens hatched in June are the most profitable. The eggs are cheaper for hatching, and chickens are easier to rear.
They start to lay in December and keep on laying the whole season where-as the earlier chickens are harder to rear and hatching eggs are dearer. The early chickens lay only a few eggs about September and stop then till the following spring.
Pullets usually lay about the age of between five and six months old. - The animals on our farm are, cows, calves, goats, horses, sheep, pigs, and poultry. The cows are called 'Daisy', 'Crummy', 'Polly and 'Pieball'. These cows got their names when(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Andrew Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Philip Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumgora, Co. Cavan