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men. Flax is fown by every body for their own 

 ufe, which they fpin, and get woven into linen 

 for themfelves, and what they have to fpare, 

 fell in yarn. There are very few of thefe 

 weavers. 



Lime is the great manure; they lay 100 

 common barrels to the acre, lafts feven or eight 

 good crops, and leaves the ground the better 

 for it ; but their principle is to exhauft as faft 

 as poffible in confequence of liming. It cofts 

 them 8d. a barrel roach. Burn with culm 

 from the coal pits in the barony of Duhallow. 

 This coal is only ufed for drying malt, fmiths 

 forges, &c. but not for common fuel. They 

 have alfo a very rich manure, which is rotten 

 lime-ftone, as they call it. It is a rock, and 

 rifes very hard, "like a lime ftone quarry, 

 but when expofed to the air, falls into fand ; 

 it has a ilrong fermentation with acids, and 

 gives great crops : they do not, however, carry 

 it above a mile and half. Paring and burning 

 they are very fond of for potatoes, and fome- 

 times for bere, but the landlords prevent the 

 practice. They get very great crops by it, and 

 do it to chufe on wafte lands; pare with an 

 inftrument they call a graffane, and the huf- 

 bandry they callgraffaning and burning. It is 

 a very ftrong hoe with which they cut up trie 

 turf, rolling it up with their foot as they do it, 

 and leaving it to dry in order to burn. They 

 do it in March or April for their potatoe plant- 

 ing; and though it makes them very late, yet 

 the crops never fail, Soot is thrown away, and 



