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Agricultural Statistics, Ireland, 1902. — Report on Irish 

 Migratory Labourers. [Cd. 1375.] Price 3d. 



The number of Irish labourers who sought temporary employ- 

 ment last year at a distance from their homes is given in this 

 Report as 19,176, or 556 less than the corresponding number in 

 1 90 1. More than three-fourths of this total were natives of the 

 province of Connaught, and of these 10,070 come from the 

 county of Mayo alone, which furnished over one-half of all the 

 Irish migratory labourers. The province ranking next to Con- 

 naught in the Returns was Ulster, which furnished 3,033 

 migrants, of whom 2,453 were natives of Donegal, while Mun- 

 ster contributed 709 and Leinster 636. 



The proportion per thousand which the migratory labourers 

 bore to the population of Ireland was 4*3, as compared with 4 - 2 

 in 1901. The rates for the provinces of Ulster, Munster, and 

 Leinster were only 1*9, 07, and 0 6 per thousand, respectively, 

 but the ratio for Connaught amounted to as much as 22*9 per 

 thousand. 



Of the total number of migrants, no fewer than 16,220 were 

 agricultural labourers, while the remaining 2,956 included repre- 

 sentatives of the mining, fishing, and other occupations. Most of 

 the labourers, viz., 13,697, were shipped to England, 4,027 went 

 to Scotland, and 1,452 sought employment in other districts of 

 Ireland. 



Agricultural Statistics, Ireland. — Extent in Stat7ite Acres and 

 Produce of the Crops for the Year 1902. \Cd. 1397.] 

 Price 3 d. 



With the exception of permanent pasture for hay and of 

 mangolds (including beetroot), the extent of land under each of 

 the principal crops in Ireland last year showed a falling off as 



