i 15 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



Prov'tfionsA.ie potatoes, oatmeal boiled and baked, 

 with milk and butter in fummer, and fome bacon ; in 

 winter hung beef. All the farmers have fome of both 

 kinds, and mod of the manufacturers, until the laft 

 two years, when the fcarcity, and high price of meat, 

 deprived many of their ufual fupply. A very great 

 defect in the houfehold management of this county, 

 both in gentlemen and farmers, is the little care taken 

 to have a fupp]y of milk and butter during the winter, 

 feafon ; all this arifes from the miftaken idea, that it is 

 more profitable to have cows to calve in the fpring, or 

 rather fummer ; yet in the dairy countries of England, 

 their cows come in in winter. To this fyflem, as the 

 more advantageous one, they fteadily adhere, both on 

 account of their dairy and their calves \ but this has 

 already been mentioned and recommended in the chap- 

 ter on live flock. 



Fuel, So much attached are the inhabitants of this 

 county to turf as fuel, that .even on the fea coafts, 

 where coals are to be had at a reafonable price,-- they 

 prefer going ten miles for the former ; as thofe, who 

 burn turf in many parts of Lecale, are obliged to do. 

 The colly arifing from the coal fmoke is fo difgufting 

 to the females, who have been ufed to turf, that nothing 

 can reconcile them to it, and the men kindly give way 

 to their feelings ; but the time muft come, when to 

 gratify them in this particular will no longer remain in 

 their power ; as the increafed population of the country 



makes 



