OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. in 



of ground, with bad packing, and at the mercy of 

 indolent carmen, muft be always a bar to this improve- 

 ment, but of this I (hall fpeak more fully in another 

 place. 



SECT. 4. Nature of Manures* 



UNDER the article Mode of Culture, I have made 

 fome remarks on common manures, to which I refer. 



With refpeft to mixed manure, (a kind of compoft 

 commonly made up of common dung, mud, or mire, 

 backs of ditches, fcrapings of flreets and roads, and 

 other materials, fuch as can be collected, and fome- 

 times lime) the farmers and cottiers of this county are 

 not inferior to thofe of any part of the kingdom. The 

 abundant crops of potatoes to be met with, in all parts 

 o,f the county, are convincing proofs of what induftry is 

 ufed in the various ways and means of collecting ma- 

 nures, becaufe without manures, in our very beft foils, 

 there can be no chance of fecuring a tolerable crop of 

 potatoes, and the mixed manures are always found the 

 beft, and if a little lime can be added, it is found ftill 

 better ; but lime alone, without being mixed with other 

 materials, is not found to anfwer for potatoes in mod 

 cafes , but there have been inftances of ftrong old leas, 

 when early ploughed, and roche lime turned in, produ- 

 cing 



