40 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



SECT. 3. Courfe of Crops. 



i. Courfe, but not the mod general is; 



1 oats. 



2 do. 



3 flax. 



4 oats. 



The above is moft commonly followed in lands 

 formerly taken in, and which hate been allowed to 

 reft for a few years after the firft courfe. The fecond 

 rotation, and fometimes the third and fourth, is ge- 

 nerally the fame as the firft. This is a moft abomi- 

 nable fyftem; the land is never fuffered to reft any 

 length of time, and the laying down with clover, or 

 any kind of grafs-feed, is generally out of the quef- 

 tion. 



Except about Strabane, and Omagh, very little at- 

 tention is paid to the laying down with grafs-feeds. 



2. The following courfe is the moft univerfal, and 

 is by far the moft rational, particularly for the ba- 

 ronies of Strabane and Omagh. 



1 potatoes, upon lea land. 



2 barley, upon one ploughing in April, or May. 



3 oats, upon one ploughing about Chriftmas. 



4 flax, upon two ploughings, the firft about Chrift- 

 mas, and the next immediately before the time of 

 fowiog, which is generally about new May. 



5th. Oats, 



