School: Headfort
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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- (continued from previous page)The way potatoes are dug: some farmers have potato-diggers others dig with spades and grasps. The people gather the potatoes with their hands into a bucket. The potatoes are put into pits i the field, straw is put on them then clay.
Theresa are the following names of potatoes
1.Hounders 2.Epicures 3.Aran Banner 4.Aran Council 5.Beauty of Hebron
6.Aran Chief 7.Aran Victor 8.Kerr's Pinks 9.Champions 10.Leinster Wonder 11.Snowflakes 12.Puritans 13.Irish Queen 14.British Queen 15.Black Champion 16.Templars 17.Up to date 18.Red Roses 19. Black Dausons 20.Aran Comrades 21.King Edwards 22.Great Scotts.
Potatoes were used instead of starch. When the farmers are spraying the potatoes he gets a sprayer, a horse sprayer or a horse-sprayer called locally a "budget". Then he gets blue-stone and caustic soda, he melts these in a barrel until they are properly melted. He fills this into the sprayers. The horse-sprayer sprays five drills. It takes 32lbs of blue-blue to spray one acre. it takes two lbs of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bobbie Jameson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisgrea, Co. Cavan
