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iifed in bread throughout the county, than otherwife. 

 The people of the province of Leinfter are very fen- 

 fible of this, and, very properly, convert the greater 

 part of their oatmeal into ftirabout, and ufe wheat and 

 rye, and fometimcs peas, for bread. The foregoing 

 grains are commonly mixed, and, when fo, are called 

 in fome parts braccas, as in the county of Kildare, and 

 in other parts mejlin t as in the county of Louth. 



It is faid, that the foils of this county are not calcu* 

 lated for wheat and rye, and particularly for the former. 

 I know they are not generally fo, but it is very noto- 

 rious, that many of them are, from fome fuccefsful 

 trials, which have been lately made in the neighbour, 

 hood of Omagh, the foils of which are by no means 

 deemed fo well calculated for wheat, as a large por- 

 tion of thofe of the baronies of Dungannon and Clogh- 

 er, which, in my opinion, are as good wheat foils as 

 any in the kingdom. A ftrong abiding loam, inclining 

 to limeftone-gravel, is allowed, by the beft judges, to 

 be moft favourable to wheat, which is in great abund- 

 ance in the above baronies. In every part of the 

 county are to be found fpots of rich bog, which pro- 

 duce abundant crops of potatoes. In all fuch places, 

 rye would certainly fucceed, after a potatoe crop : but 

 by far the beft economy would be, to have rape after 

 potatoes, as part of fuch grounds are in general burned 

 the year before, to manure the potatoe crop. The laft 

 crop, or that after rape, (hould be rye. 



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