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School: Convent of Mercy, Clogheen

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Clogheen, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Sr. M. Emmanuel Hearn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0574, Page 025

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    and has so continued working ever since.
    There are about 136 suppliers bringing milk with a daily supply of about 2,000 gallons during the summer months. Suppliers are paid on the butter fat basis or an average price of d4 3/4 per gallon last year with seperated milk returned free.
    Work is first started at about 5:30 in the morning. The milk is brought in by the suppliers in cans from seven o clock to eleven o clock. It is weighed in lbs and a record in a pass-book kept by the suppliers
    Through the weighing machine all the milk passes into a tank of 300 gallons capacity. From
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Mc Keegan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clogheen, Co. Tipperary