OF THE COUNTY OF DOWN. 95 



expenfe, which deduct very much from the profit, 

 which, notwithfianding, where the crop is tolerable, is 

 confiderable. The expences are rent, feed, fowing, 

 weeding, ftoning, pulling, watering, taking out and 

 graffing, lifting, drying, fcotching at the mills ; thefe 

 amount to from 8/. to io/. per acre; fifty (tones at 

 i ij-. 4|</. or fay los. come to 2$!. which leaves a profit 

 of !/., and when to this is added the feed when faved, 

 amounting to two and one-half hogfheads, few crops 

 will be found to equal it; one objection, however, lies 

 againfl it; it affords no return of manure. As to its ex- 

 haufting the ground more than grain, that, I believe, 

 has rio foundation, at leaft I never could find it fo, and 

 Mr. Chrifty's experiment feems conclufive. I hope I 

 ftiall be excufed for having faid fo much upon the fub- 

 jecl of flax, but I thought it was due to the plant, from 

 which we draw the fupport of our fhple manufacture, 

 and that it might form a matter of curiofity to ftraa- 

 gers, if into any fuch hands this Report ftiould fall. 



PEAS. 



Peas arc not fo much fown as formerly; even in Le- 

 cale, where this culture was a part of the general ma- 

 nagement; they are efteemed, and juftly, a great re- 

 frefhment, preparing the ground for a crop of grain, 

 if the foil is light, in a fuperior manner. 



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