ARMY AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE. 



REPORT .-Formation and Objects; Position of Army Cultivations in January, 1918; Home Forces; 

 prance ; Mesopotamia ; Grain Cultivation by Native Population ; Vegetable Production ; Forage Supplies f 

 Dairy and Fodder Farms ; Seed Testing and Distribution ; Demonstration Farms ; Salonica ; Direct and 

 indirect Cultivation ; Proposals for 1919. 



[Cmd. 308] of Session 1919. Price M. 



AGRICULTURAL WAGES BOARD. 



EEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE FINANCIAL RESULTS OP THE OCCUPATION OF AGRICULTURAL 

 LAND, AND THE COST OF LIVING OF RURAL WORKERS. 



INTRODUCTION : Farming Costs and Results : Prices of Farm Products ; Regulation of Prices of Farm 



'rices of Farm Requisites ; Implements and Machinery ; Farm Seeds ; Feeding Stuffs and 



lisers ; Farm Rents ; Receipts and Expenditure on Farms : Tenant Farms ; Home Farms ; Co-operative 



Farms ; A Co-partnership Farm ; Rise in Agricultural Wages and Cost of Labour ; Cost of Liviuo- : Retail 



Prices of Requirements of Farm Workers' Families ; Cost of Living, Conclusions : Financial Results of the 



Occupation of Land, Cost of Living in Rural Districts, Summary. Appendices : Tables of Average Prices 



b arm Products and Requirements, Feeding Stuffs, and certain Fertilisers, Increase in the Price of Farm 



Implements, Machinery, etc., Comparative Prices of Raw Materials in the Hop and Fruit-rowin<r 



lustnes, A Co-partnership Farm, Notes upon Farming Costs, Rates of Wages of Agricultural Labourers, 



18, Memoranda by Dr. Somerville : Effect of Price Changes on the Financial Position of the Farmer, 



Stocking a 'Farm, 1913-1918, Estimate of Amount of Capital required for a Michaelmas 



fcntryona Farm of 300 Acres (half Tillage, Corn and Stock) in 1913 and L918 respectively, Estimate of 

 Capital on Farms of 316 Acres, 1914 and 1918, Average Expenditure of 269 Farm Workers' Families 

 . I une, 1919, etc. 



[Cmd. 76] of Session 1919. Price 9d. (IHrf.) 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE FOR SCOTLAND. 

 Seventh Report, for 1918. 



Finances ; Establishment ; Proceedings relating to the Constitution of New Landholders' Holdings and 

 alargement of Landh.. Holdings; Loans to Existing Landholders; Proceedings relating to the Disposal 



Vacant Landholders and Statutory Small Tenants' Holdings, &c. ; Management of the Board's Estat< 

 icultural Education, Research, and Development; Proceedings in connection with the Effects of the 

 European War upon Agricultural Interests; Forestry; Administration of Statutes transferred by Sec 4(11) 

 1911 : Statistics and Intelligence; Public Works in Congested Districts; Home Industries. 



1 Number of Applications Eor, and Total Number of Applicants who have obtained 



Holdings and Enlargements: Land under Crops (excluding Rotation Grasses and 



h County in Scotland in 1917, with the 1' and Actual Increase in 1918 The Killing of 



'^' of under Defence of the Realm Regulation 2 R Regulations 



-ing the Central Nations regarding the District Wa<>e Comraitt- 



Agricultural Wages Committee, Powers and D: -otland) Order, 1918; Central Agricultural W; 



ttee and ict Wages Committees; Table showing the Minimum Rates of Waes in force at 



December 31 1918; I, -,d Exports of \Vood and Timber during 1918 ; Table showing the Work done 



during l!Ms under the Improvement of Land Acts, 1864 and 1899, &c. ; Number of Samples of 



taken m each County in Scotland during 19 IS. 

 [Cmd. 185] of Session 1919. Price <></. i 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION FOR IRELAND. 



"KENTH AXNUA' ;:.\L REPORT, 1916-17. 



l'nrt /. Administration ami Funds. 



The Council nd Boards ; Funds of the Department ; Administration of the Endowment 



Fund; Central 1 Development Ac , .Minerals and Raw Materials ; Loan Fund Svstem : 



War and the Food Supply. 



Part II. Details of the Department's Operations. 



[culture :-Agricaltural Instruction; Agricultural Faculty, Royal College of Science; ]{ 

 .nary College oi Ireland; Albert Agricultural College, Glasnevin ; Agricultural Stations; MountbelU 

 "'" tlira ; Antrim Agricultural School; North-west Agricultural School, Strabane Wii 



Ajrncultural Schools for Girls ; Munster institute, Cork ; Ulster Dairy School, Co,'" 

 School lural Domestic E ; Scheme of Itinerant Instruction m. Agriculture ; Tilla-e 



ution ; Special Agricultural Schemes tor Congested Districts ; Special Demonstration Plots- P, 

 : Supply of Implements; Tree Planting:; Special Assistance to Migrants; Veterinary Dispensaries 

 Poultry-keeping; Egg-laying Competition: 1 Suiter-making ; Improvement in the Management 



dng : Horticulture and Bee-keeping; Pri/es for Cottages and Small Farms- Sub- 

 Improvement of Live Stock. Experiments and Investigations. Laws relatin- to Aeri- 

 coli .uiltural Purposes. I .mpulsorv Tillage 1917 



neal Instruction : Technical Schools and Classes; Day versus Evening Schools; Traiiiin- 

 leachers; Central Institutions; SchoL etc. 



Maekerel, Herring, Shell, and Salmon Fisheries: Kelp; Net-mending l>i cl - -ui.1 



Branch. Veterinary Branch. Transit and Markets : Transit of Produce 



f,"' 1 .' t;lll ;V' ^' ''<"' nnder the Sale of Food and Dru^s Acts, and under 



vlarks Act* (Ireland) 5 Action taken by the Department's Staff in Great Britain for the 



', ' 'tions under the 'Markets iind Fairs (Wei-hin^ of Cattle, 



id 1891. A j. 



.11 191H. l'i 



