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Agricultural Statistics of Ireland with detailed Report on 

 Agriculture for the Yearl89S. [C— 7531.] Price Is. Sd. 



This publication is the annual report prepared by the Regis- 

 trar-General in Dublin, and contains information relating to 

 Ireland, for the year 1893, as regards division of land ; acreage 

 under crops ; number and size of holdings ; number of occupiers 

 of land ; woods and plantations ; rates of produce ; average 

 prices of agricultural produce ; noxious insects ; number, ages, 

 &c. of live stock ; diseases of cattle ; exports and imports of live 

 stock ; dairy industries ; honey produced ; number of scutching 

 mills ; number of corn mills ; silos and ensilage ; forestry opera- 

 tions ; agricultural schools ; wages of agricultural labourers ; 

 loans for labourers' dwellings ; and observations on the produce 

 of the crops. 



In a table contained in the report, it is shown that the number 

 of dairy factories from which statistics were obtained was 190, 

 being an increase of 15 as compared with the number returned 

 in 1892, and that the number of hands permanently employed 

 amounted to 1,443, or 199 more than in the previous year. 



Of the 190 factories, 95 were owned by individual proprietors, 

 49 were the property of joint stock companies, and 46 belonged 

 to co-operative farmers; 169 dealt with cream only, 4 with 

 cream only, and 17 with both milk and cream. 



In the 190 factories there were 419 milk separators, of which 

 357, or 85 per cent., were worked by steam-power. Almost 

 four-fifths of the total number were in Munster, the number for 

 that province being 151 ; there were 33 in Leinster, 4 in Ulster^ 

 and 2 in Connaught, 



The quantities of milk and cream supplied to the factories 

 during the year ended 30th September 1893 is given as 

 64,107,418 gallons of the former, and 809,422 of the latter, 

 278j492 gallons of cream being again sold as such. The quantity 

 of butter produced during the same period was 160,845 cwts. 

 (against 141,573 cwts. in the preceding year); 183 cwts. of 

 skim-milk cheese; and 15,154,700 lbs. of condensed milk 



The skim milk was returned to the farmers by 162 factories, 

 and it was otherwise disposed of in the remaiaing establishments. 



Agricultural Statistics, Ireland, 1894. Report and Tables 

 relating to Migratory Agricultural Labourers ; showing 

 their distribution in Ireland when at home ; their relative 

 proportion to the p)opulation ; their social position when 

 at home as measured by the extent of their holdings, if any ; 

 their destination; and the number who left the several 

 ports from \st January to ^Ist Atvgust 1894. [C. — -7533.] 

 Price 2\d. 



This Report shows that there were 15,615 migratory agricul- 

 tural labourers in Ireland during the above period, and that 



