1922. 



Conciliation Committees. 



199 



It cannot but be of great value to farmers and gardeners 

 to be in a position to recognise weeds, and to have a knowledge 

 of their life history and habits. Such a knowledge of a given 

 weed will at the outset often enable one to judge whether i; ie 

 likely to cause serious trouble, and will largely indicate what 

 type of protective and remedial measures may most success- 

 fully be adopted. 



New leaflets on Kagwort and Spurrey have recently been 

 issued by the [Ministry, and other weed leaflets have been 

 revised. In order to place information on weeds in the hands of 

 farmers and others in a convenient form, the whole of the 

 leaflets so far issued have been brought together in a small 

 volume of 86 pages.* This volume deals with seven species of 

 thistles, three species of couch or twitch, charlock, dodder, 

 broom-rape, coltsfoot, docks and sorrels, yellow rattle, spurrey, 

 ragwort, meadow saffron, corn marigold, goosefoot, corn cockle, 

 stinging nettles and poppies. It also includes general leaflets 

 on weeds and their suppression, seed testing, and injurious 

 weed seeds in grasses and clovers harvested for seed in Britain. 



Several agreements of the Conciliation Committees expired 

 during the last month, but in most cases the Committees con- 



n ~~;u i.' cerned have succeeded in arriving at new 



Conciliation , , 



Committees agreements to operate during the next tew 

 in A riculture moiltns - In Anglesey, where nb agreement 

 has existed for the last six months, the 

 negotiations have at last resulted in a settlement, and the Com- 

 mittee have now arrived at an agreement to cover the half-yearly 

 period up to 13th November. 



The total number of agreements in operation on 22nd May 

 was 45. 



The agreements made since 22nd April are as follows : — 



Area. Period. Wages. Hours per iceeh. 



Beds «iik1 Hunts. Dp to 6th Oct.. 1022 7£d. per hr. Guar- 

 anteed week of 

 50 hr. 



Cheshire - - „ 30th Sept. „ 36/-. Weekday 54 



overtime 9d. per 

 hr. Sunday em- 

 ployment LOd. 

 per hr. 



* Collected LeaHets on Weeds, price 8d. post free, from the Ministry's 

 Otliccs, 10, Whitehall Place, London. S.W.I. 



