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Report of the Irish Land Commissioners for the period from 

 the 1st April 1893 to Slst March 1894. [C— 7380.] Price 

 Is. 6d. 



In this volume it is stated that the collection and publication 

 of the prevailing prices of agricultural produce has been con- 

 tinued by the Agricultural Department of the Irish Land 

 Commission. 



Diagrams showing the fluctuations of prices of beef, mutton, 

 store stock, and agricultural produce in Ireland are included in 

 the Appendix. 



The Agricultural Department has continued to carry out the 

 working of the scheme approved by the Congested Districts 

 Board for improvement in the breeding of cattle, horses, asses, 

 swine, sheep, and poultry ; and also for the improvement of 

 agriculture and forestry ; the Department has also, at the request 

 of the Congested Districts Board, purchased small quantities 

 of seeds and manures for sale and distribution to residents in 

 congested districts. 



The 60th Report of the Commissioners of National Education 

 in Ireland. [C. — 7457.] Price 4<d. 



The information contained in this volume as regards agricul- 

 tural education shows that during the year 1893 there were 

 79,462 pupils examined in the Agricultural Class Books in 

 Ireland, of whom 48,399 passed. Instruction in the theory of 

 agriculture is compulsory in all rural schools in Ireland for 

 boys in the 4th, 5th, and 6th classes, and is optional in the case 

 of girls. 



The total number of School Farms in connection with Ordi- 

 nary National Schools on the 31st December 1893 was 45, and 

 there were 30 other schools having School Gardens attached. 



The Report states that the instruction given in the Dairy 

 Schools at Glasnevin and Cork continues to be efficiently 

 carried out. The number of dairy pupils who attended during 

 the two sessions of 1893 at the Glasnevin Dairy School was 60. 



During the winter of 1893 a special class for instructing 

 persons engaged in creamery occupations as creamery managers 

 was held at the Munster Dairy School,. The Dairy School was 

 supplied with the newest machinery suitable for creamej-ies, 

 and special instruction was given in the use of the machinery. 

 Lectures on the chemistry of milk were delivered by a skilled 

 cheinist. Practical instruction in creamery management was 

 imparted by an experienced dairy instructor, who at the 

 suggestion, and under the authority of the Government, was 

 appointed from the 1st April 1893 to visit and organise the 

 creameries and butter factories throughout Ireland, and also to 

 give general instruction in buttermaking and cheesemaking to 

 the students of the model farms. 



