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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATION'S. [March 1895 . 



It is believed that good results will follow from the introduction 

 of the new seed, and the Board hope to extend the sale of seeds 

 and also of suitable artificial manures to small occupiers in other 

 districts where the means are defective for obtaining and selling 

 such articles of good quality at moderate prices. 



The Board have also taken further steps for obtaining infor- 

 mation as to the establishment of market gardening as an 

 industry in suitable places in the congested districts. 



Arrangements are in progress for the establishment of small 

 poultry farms in additional districts during the autumn and 

 earl) winter of 1894. 



A grant of 100^. was made for experiments to encourage the 

 keeping of bees by small occupiers of land, and the operations 

 under this grant are being conducted on the system approved 

 by the best authorities on the subject. 



The report states that the efforts of the Hon. Horace Plunkett, 

 one of the members of the Board, in the advancement of co- 

 operative dairying are well known. In consideration of the 

 very favourable position of the numerous co-operative creameries 

 established by or in consultation with him, the sum of 250L 

 was voted by the Board towards promoting in congested districts 

 the objects of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, of 

 which Mr. Plunkett is president. 



Ad/ministration Beport on the Eaihcays in India for 1893-4, 

 by Lieutenant' Colonel W. S. S. Bisset, G.I.E., 

 officiating Director-General of Railways. [C.-7453.] 

 Price 2s. 9<i. , 



In the section of this report giving the details of the revenue 

 of the Indian railways it is stated that in 1893 the grain and 

 seeds traffic, which forms the most important freight on Indian 

 railways, showed an increase, compared with the preceding year, 

 of 530,141 tons, or 7'61 per cent., the actual figures being 

 7,495,469 tons in 1893, compared with 6,965,328 tons in 1892. 



In wheat alone, the total traffic over the entire system of 

 standard and metre gauge railways amounted to 987,791 tons 

 in 1893, compared with 1,186,374 tons in 1892. 



The quantities of wheat carried by the important exporting 

 railways during the seven years 1886-92 were as follows: — 

 920,679 tons in 1886, 964,428 tons in 1887, 1,175,231 tons in 

 1888, 956,239 tons in 1889, 931,789 tons in 1890, 1,881,545 tons 

 1891, and 1,230,823 tons in 1892. 



The exports of wheat from the three chief ports during the 

 same period aT6 given in the following table, which also shows 

 the per-centage of exports on the estimated out-turn of wheat 



