366 PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. [Dec. 1895. 



The acreage under cereal and green crops for 1895 and pre^ 

 ceding years is shown in the following table : — 



Crops. 



1891. 



1892. 



1893. 



1894. 



1895. 



Wheat - - - - 



xicres. 

 80,870 



Acres. 

 75,408 



Acres. 

 54,998 



Acres. 

 49,338 



Acres. 

 36,529 



Oats .... 



1,215,396 



1,226,214 



1,248,338 



1,254,837 



1,216,370 



Barley . - - - 



177,966 



175,178 



168,776 



164595 



171,648 



Bere and Eye - 



13,796 



13,525 



13,656 



12,102 



11,654 



Beans and Pease 



4,735 



4,433 



3,605 



3,185 



2,852 



Potatoes . - - - 



753,332 



740,025 



723,735 



717,090 



710,389 



Turnips - - - - 



300,326 



300,447 



302,774 



311,310 



313,248 



Mangel wurzel and beet root ■ 



51,757 



51,554 



47,034 



52,039 



53,026 



Cabbage - - - - 



43,049 



41,184 



41,236 



44,506 



39,701 



Vetches and rape 



12,872 



11,948 



11,051 



10,822 



9,809 



Carrots, parsnips, and other 

 green crops 



30,088 



29,705 



27,878 



27,508 



25,409 



Plax . - . - 



74,665 



70,647 



67,487 



101,081 



95,202 



fClover, sainfoin, 

 and grasses nn- 

 Meadow | der rotation 



and ■{ Permanent pasture 

 Clover. 1 or grass 7iot bro- 

 1 ken ztj) in rota- 

 L tion 



595,609 

 1,463,920 



623,886 

 1,518,924 



642,355 

 1,525,118 



6il,058 

 1,541,540 



635,603 

 1,558,066 



Total extent under crops ■ 



4,818,381 



4,883,108 



4,878,041 



4,931,011 



4,879,506 



With regard to the number of live stock, 4,358,041 cattle 

 were returned in 1895, as compared with 4,391,839 in 1894, 

 a decrease of nearly 34,000. The number of sheep in Ireland 

 in 1895 also exhibits a decrease as compared with 1894, the 

 numbers being 3,914,855 against 4,105,180. The number of 

 swine, which in 1894 was given as 1,389,324, only amounted to 

 1,338,454 in 1895. Of the 16,370,496 poultry enumerated in 

 1895, 1,001,818 were turkeys, 2,026,343 were geese, 2,827,044 

 were ducks, and 10,515,291 were ordinary fowl. 



Scotland. Report of the Committee of Council on Education 

 for the year 1894-95. [C— 7816.] Price Sd. 



This report states that there were 686,335 children on the 

 registers of the inspected schools. Examinations were held in 

 the principles of agriculture under Art. 21 of the Code of the 

 Scotch Education Department. Of 3,318 pupils who were 

 examined in the first stage of this subject 2,846 passed, in the 

 second stage there were 1,274 passes out of 1,446, and 846 out 

 of 932 in the third stage, the total number of passes being 

 4,966 out of 5,696 presentations ; this is a slight increase on the 

 previous year, vfhen out of a total of 5,542 candidates 4,746 were 

 successful. Instruction was also given in the Evening Continua- 

 tion Schools to men and boys in agriculture and horticulture. 



