OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE- 81 



SECT. 9. Dairies their produce. 



As far as I can learn, there is not a dairy in the 

 county, for the public fale of milk and butter. 



The produce is chiefly milk and butter, as very little 

 cheefe is made, except a little for family confumption, 

 which is of an inferior quality. Butter, in the fummer 

 feafon, is to 'be had frefli in every town and village, 

 moft commonly at a dear rate, fometimes fo high as a 

 (hilling a pound of eighteen ounces. It is a common 

 practice with huxters and dealers, to reduce the pound 

 of eighteen ounces to fixteen ounces (the ftandard), be- 

 fore they retail it to the public. This is a grievance, 

 which might be eafily remedied by the firft fellers, by 

 making their pound only fixteen ounces, fmce they 

 alone are the fufFerers, and not the confumers. 



All the butter, the farmers can fpare in the fummer, 

 is generally made up for winter and fpring ufe ; the 

 produce of the county is generally confumed within 

 itfelf. The maxim of the common people is, to live 

 on buttermilk in fummer, and referve the butter for 

 winter; this is certainly good economy, but it is not 

 literally followed. 



Such part of the milk, when churned, or what is 



commonly called butter-milk, as can be fpared from 



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