200 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



It is only in the mountainous parts that we find any 

 thing, that appears not induftrious. In thofe parts, the 

 management of potatoes, oats, and turf, is chiefly the 

 outer work, which occupies the men only part of 

 the year; the remainder is generally employed in 

 weaving. 



Whenever tafk, or piece-work, occurs, it never fails 

 to excite induftry. 



The hardfhip the poor people, who occupy moun- 

 tainous parts, labour chiefly under is the want of flax, 

 as many mountains are not fit to produce that article ; 

 therefore they muft purchafe, frequently at a dear 

 rate. Perhaps there is no way, by which the poor 

 could be more materially aflifled, than by laying up 

 Jlores of flax when cheap, and felling it to them at 

 the firft coft; this might be a confideration worthy of 

 the attention of farming focieties and others. 



The various exertions, ufed by many in collecting 

 manures, are furprifing. I have frequently found half 

 an acre of potatoes in the pofleffioB of poor families, 

 who had not a four-footed beaft except a cat or dog ; 

 and all made from mud or mire, aflics, rufhes, fprit, 

 tec. Broom and furze, in ftrong clay foils, anfwer 

 extremely well for manure for potatoes, and of thefe 

 the poor take advantage where they are to be found. 

 I have known good crops of potatoes produced from 

 common heath or heder. 



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