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tive of satisfactory results, Dairy instructresses visit the 

 homes of the pupils, advising - as to improvements generally, 

 and it is stated that the reserve at first exhibited towards 

 these visitors by the small farmers is largely decreasing. 



The two creamery instructors have been fully occupied in 

 the inspection of existing creameries, and in advising upon 

 sites and plans for new erections. The services of these 

 instructors are available for all creameries, but they have 

 been most largely utilised by those on the co-operative 

 principle. 



Agricultural Statistics, Ireland, 1899. [C. — 9490.J 

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This report contains detailed information relating to Irish 

 Agricultural labourers, showing their distribution when at 

 home in Ireland and their social position as measured by the 

 extent of their holding, their relative proportion to the 

 population, and the number and destination of those who left 

 Irish ports from the 1st January to the 31st August, 1899. It 

 is shown that in the month of June last there were 18,910 

 persons who either had left, or intended to leave their homes 

 to seek employment as agricultural labourers elsewhere. The 

 corresponding number for 1898 was 17,902, showing an 

 increase of 1,008 in the present year. The proportion for 

 the whole of Ireland, based upon the Census of 1891, works 

 out this year to 4*0 per 1,000; but when considered by 

 provinces it is found to have been 21*6 per 1,000 in 

 Connaught, i*8 in Ulster, 0*3 in Munster, and o*i in Leinster. 

 An analysis by counties shows that the proportion of migra- 

 tory labourers to the total population w-as highest in Mayo, 

 Roscommon, Donegal, Galway, and Sligo — viz., 46*6, 17*3, 

 14*0, 9*8, and 9-8 respectively. Co. Mayo also appears in a 

 more remarkable light from another point of view, inasmuch 

 as 196 per 1,000 of its adult male population sought employment 

 at a distance from their homes. In no other county does the 

 proportion reach 7 per cent. 



