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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[March 1896. 



with the issue of the previous year, and good results are being 

 produced. 



In accordance with the scheme submitted by the Irish Bee- 

 keeping Association, and approved of by the Board, Mr. T. B. 

 O'Bryen visited certain congested districts during the year 1894, 

 for the purpose of afiording advice, instruction, and assistance 

 in bee-keeping to those anxious to avail themselves of his 

 services. His operations were confined mainly to the county 

 Donegal, where 22 persons were supplied with stocks of bees, 

 or appliances to assist them either to commence bee-keeping or 

 to improve the system they had previously adopted. The stocks 

 and appliances were sold either for cash or upon definite terms 

 as to repayment. The result of the season's work was most 

 satisfactory ; all the stocks were in a thriving condition at the 

 end of the season, and large quantities of honey had been 

 obtained. Mr. O'Bryen reports that great interest was taken 

 in the work, and that, in addition to the stocks and appliances 

 supplied by the Board, many persons were induced to purchase 

 bees and appliances on their own account. 



Appendix to the Sixty -first Report of the Commissioners of 

 National Education in Ireldnd, for the Year 1894. 

 [C— 7891.] Price Is. Sd, 



This publication contains full details regarding the instruc- 

 iiion in agriculture which is given in Ireland. The information 

 is contained partly in the Reports of the Inspectors of Irish 

 National Schools, and partly in the Eeport, by the Superin- 

 tendent of the Agricultural Department, on the Model Farms 

 and Agricultural Schools. 



On the 31st December 1894 there existed in Ireland 47 of 

 the last-mentioned institutions, three of which were under the 

 exclusive management of the Board, the others being under 

 local management. At the same period there were also 80 

 school gardens under local management in connection with the 

 Board. 



In the Report of the Superintendent of the Agricultural 

 Department it is reported that general progress was made 

 during the year. Detailed information is given of the work 

 of the Albert National Agricultural Institution and the Munster 

 Agricultural and Dairy School, as well as of the following 

 experiments which were carried out during the same period : — 

 (1.) On artificial manures applied to grass; (2.) Experiments to 

 test the feeding and manurial value of linseed cake, cotton-seed 

 cake, and maize in the feeding of sheep upon pasture land ; 

 Swedish turnips and hay being given to the sheep folded upon 

 the pasture ; (3.) Various experiments on the feeding of pigs ; 

 (4.) On the spraying of potatoes with copper sulphate as a 

 preventive against potato disease. 



