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1. The Potato Crop (continued)

   

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   brought into a barn and cut into three or four parts. There is an eye left in every part. It is from that eye that the green shoots appear. The neighbours help each other at the setting of the potatoes.
   During the Summer months the potatoes have to be sprayed and moulded. The months for spraying them are July and August. They are sprayed to keep the blight away. The blight is a disease which blackens the leaves on the potato-stocks. It was the blight that caused the famine in Ireland long ago. When the green shoots appears over the tops of the drills the workman comes along with a plough and goes up and down the valleys between the drills covering the young shoots with clay. In the ridges when the green shoots appear over the ground the workman digs an amount of clay in each furrow to cover the green shoots. Then he comes with a shovel and throws the clay out of the furrow on the ridge. In the Autumn he digs the potatoes from the ridges with a spade. He digs them from the drills with a plough. He puts the plough in the middle of the drill at the end and goes up the drill and as he goes along the potatoes all come out.
   The workman picks the potatoes from the earth. First he gets a bucket and fills it with

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. potatoes (~2,701)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Rose Mc Gennis

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coragh, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Mr P. Mc Gennis

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Coragh, Co. Cavan