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mand conftant turning to prevent fcorching. Win- 

 nowing machines are now frequently introduced into 

 mills, which prevents the troublefome operation of 

 carrying the grain, when fhelled, or freed from its out- 

 fide covering, to be cleaned ' out of the houfe. Very 

 cxtenfive flour-mills have been erefted in different 

 places in this county, the machinery of the beft kind, 

 where every neceffary operation is performed, iri^x- 

 trafting the feveral forts of flour. The regular market 

 thefe mills afford has very much encouraged the growth 

 of wheat in their refpeclive neighbourhoods. Flax- 

 mills are to be met with in every parifh; the firft was 

 erefted in this county about the year 1757, by Mr. 

 Maxwell; the fecond by Mr. Johnfton of Redemon, 

 a (hort time after, who got a premium for it from the 

 JDublin Society. Thefe mills perform all the procefs 

 neceflary towards preparing the flax for the hackler, 

 after it is taken from the grafs; they are thought to be 

 more fevere on the material than the former method of 

 handling it, but they are more expeditious, and cheaper, 

 the price for all fixteen pence per flone of ilxteen 

 pounds. In this country I need fcarcely fpecify the 

 bleach-mills; they, of courfe, follow the linen manu- 

 fafture. There are alfo one or two fulling-mills, 

 moflly employed by thofe, who make coarfe woollens 

 and blankets for domeftic ufe. 



With refpeft to the tolls paid at mills, it feeras to me 

 that landlord, as well as tenant, might be gainers, by 



commuting 



