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bore an unfair burden of rates and taxes, and that personal 

 property should bear a greater share. Railway rates were 

 frequently said to be too high, and the abolition of preference 

 rates to foreigners over English lines was often demanded. 

 Among other suggestions for the alleviation of depression were 

 protection, marking of foreign meat, repeal of the malt tax, 

 measures against the adulteration of beer and butter, cheap loans 

 for improve Qients, co-operation in sale of produce, and light 

 railways. 



Welsh Land Commission. Minutes of Evidence taken before 

 the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouth- 

 shire. {Sixty -fourth to Eightieth Days.) Volume JF. 

 [C— 7757.] Price 7s. Id. 



This volume contains a list of witnesses examined, and the 

 minutes of evidence taken, from the 28th of August to the 15th 

 of September 1894. An appendix of documents on various 

 subjects is also attached to this publication. 



Agricidtural Statistics of Ireland, with detailed Report on 

 Agricidture for the Year 1894. [C— 7763.] Frice Is. M. 



This publication is t]ie annual report prepared by the Regis- 

 trar-General in Dublin, and contains information relating to 

 Ireland, for the year 1894, 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' dwelUngs ; 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 226, 

 being an increase of 36 as compared with the number returned 

 in 1893, and that the number of hands permanently employed 

 amounted to 1,708, or 265 more than in the previous year. 



Of the 226 factories, 115 were owned by individual proprietors, 

 50 were the property of joint stock companies, and 61 belonged 

 to co-operative societies ; 204 dealt with milk only, 8 with cream 

 only, and 14 with both milk and cream. 



In the 226 factories there were 505 milk separators, of which 

 423, or 83 "8 per cent., were worked by steam-power. Almost 



