OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 137 



Of encouragement to them t and the peculiar aptnefs of 

 the fttuation for their extenfton. 



Some years back, the Linen Board gave premiums 

 for the encouragement of flax-feed of Irilh growth; 

 the practice of fowing Irifti feed, however, has been 

 difcontinued, for reafons known to the growers, who 

 mufl be certainly well acquainted with the difference 

 between foreign feed, and that of Irifh growth , nor 

 is it likely, that they would prefer paying fuch high 

 prices for foreign feed, if they found the Irifh growth 

 to anfwer the main end, which is that of having the 

 good quality of the flax iii view. 



I do not know of any fcheme, that could tend to 

 encourage the linen trade, more than that of faving 

 of fuel in bleaching. The quantity of turf, that is an- 

 nually ufed in the county, is moft aflonifhing. 



I am furprifed, that fome enterprizing bleacher, be- 

 fore this time, has not taken a hint from Count Rum- 

 ford's fyftem, which could not fail in anfvvering the 

 defired end.* 



In fome bleach-greens, upwards of 10,000 kiflies of 

 turf are annually confumed, or an area, at leaft equal 

 to 1 1 ,000 cubical yards, of made up fuel, fit for con- 



fumption. 



* At the Linen-hall, in Dublin, an apparatus is fet up for 

 tbe faying of fuel. 



