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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[Sept. 1894. 



Appendix a list of the subjects of technical instruction which 

 have been sanctioned since the passing of the Technical Instruc- 

 tion Act, 1889, including the following, which are more or less 

 connected with agriculture : — 



Agricultural engineering (including driving and working steam 



engines and machinery). 

 Agriculture (practice of) and agricultural processes (including 

 demonstrations and experiments for agricultural instruction ; 

 practical farm work ; vegetable and fruit growing ; fruit 

 storing ; market gardening ; glass houses ; management of 

 live stock ; dairy work and cheese-making ; thatchiog ; 

 fence and mow -making ; sheep shearing ; hedging ; ditch- 

 ing ; rick-making ; shepherding ; under draining ; stacking ; 

 ploughing). 



Bee keeping ; cider and perry making ; entomology ; farriery ; 

 forestry ; gardening ; horticulture and arboriculture ; mill- 

 ing (flour manufacture) ; poultry keeping ; principles of 

 road making ; sugar manufacture ; veterinary science ; 

 and the preparation and treatment of wool. 



The Fifth and Final Report of the Royal Commission on 

 Labour. Parti. [0.-7421.] Price 2s. 



This report contains a review by Mr. W. C. Little, the senior 

 Assistant Commissioner, of the results of the inquiry which has 

 been made into the condition of the agricultural labourer in 

 different parts of the United Kingdom. In an introductory 

 statement as to the character and scope of the inquiry, it is 

 observed that about 1,200,000 persons were enumerated in the 

 Census of 1891 under the several occupations entered in the 

 category of wage earners in agriculture, of whom less than 

 70,000 were females. The number of wage earners in agriculture 

 to every 10,000 of total population in 1871, 1881, and 1891 is 

 shown as follows : — 



Nnmher of Wage Farmers in Agriculture to every 10,000 of 

 Total Population. 





1871. 



1881. 



1891. 



England and Wales 



434 



343 



275 



Scotland > _ - _ 



490 



400 



300 



Ireland - - - - - 



942 



650 



595 



Great Britain and Ireland 



.531 



394 



318 



From these figures it is estimated that the rate of decrease 

 in 20 years has been about 20 per cent, in England and Wales, 

 27 per cent, in Scotland, and 45 per cent, in Ireland. It is 



