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School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)

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    they them and they leave an eye in
    every set. Then they sow them
    and they put a little clay over them and
    after that they put some manure over
    them. The local people very seldom help one an other sowing the potatoes except in cutting the corn.
    When the potatoes are grown
    up above the drills they weed them and they put the clay up with them.
    They dig them in the Autumn with
    ploughs and they seperate them out from
    the clay and the children pick into cans and from that into the cart and then they store them in the pits Then they put hay outside them and clay outside that again
    Those are the various kinds of
    (in margin of page, accompanied by a drawing: This the drawing of a spade)
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
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    Collector
    Paddy Moylan
    Gender
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