OF THE COUNTY "OF TYRONE. 53 



SECT. 6. Markets for Grain* 



ALTHOUGH there are feveral market towns through- 

 out the county, yet very little grain is fold at any of 

 them. Oats and barley are generally fold by fample. 

 Oatmeal and potatoes are the chief articles of food, 

 fold in the public markets. The principal markets 

 are, Dungannon, Stewartftown, Cookftown, Augh- 

 nacloy, Augher, Fmtona, Omagh, Newtownftewart, 



and Strabane ; there are a few others, but of very 



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 little note. 



Flax-feed abounds in every market, in fpring, not 

 only in market towns, but even in fmall villages, and 

 detached houfes through the country. It is always 

 bought from the merchant by the hogfhead, which 

 generally is from fixty to feventy gallons ; it is retailed 

 by pecks and gallons ; five of the latter are fuffici- 

 ent to fow half a rood, or twenty fquare perches of 

 land, being in the proportion of forty gallons to the 

 acre. 



Moft commonly, great profits are made by retailing 

 flax-feed j I have known them to amount to forty per 

 cent. 



Some years ago, in confequence of premiums granted 

 by the Dublin fociety, or the Linen board, large quan- 

 tities of flax-feed of Irifh growth were fown ; but this 

 praftice, with great propriety, has been laid aiide. 



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