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full instruction in creamery and ordinary dairy management. 
At the Munster Institution, Cork, the number of students in 
attendance in 1899 was I44. The progress in itinerant dairy 
instruction is reported to have been satisfactory. 

Agricultural Statistics, Lreland, 1900.—Report on Migratory 
Agricultural Labourers. |Cd.341.| Price 64d. 
For some years past the number of Irish migratory agri- 
cultural labourers returned as habitually seeking employment 
at a distance from their homes has exhibited a tendency to 
increase, although the numbers are not now so great as they 
were twenty yearsago. A minimum of 11,723 appears to have 
been reached in 1888, since when there has been a gradual 
rise, and in 1900 the number recorded was 19,022, as com- 
pared with 18,910 in 1899. 
Of the total in 1900 more than four-fifths, viz., 15,878, came 
from the province of Connaught, Mayo alone furnishing 10,331, 
or over half the entire number, and this county appears — 
alwaysto have contributed the largest quota. The numbers from 
the other counties of Connaught were as follows: Galway, 
2,231; Roscommon, 2,060; Sligo, 972; and Leitrimipgaaa 
Outside this province, Donegal, whence 2,204 labourers 
migrated, was the only county contributing in any material 
degree to the iotal. The whole of Ulster furnished 2,586, 
Munster 469, and Leinster but 89 migratory labourers. Com- 
pared with 1899, Munster shows a relatively large increase 
of 150 (47 per cent.), and Ulster a decline of 348 (12 per cent.) 
Expressed asa proportion of the population, it appears 
that the migratory labourers amounted to 4 per I,o00 
of the whole number of persons in Ireland; while in Mayo 
the ratio was as much as 47, in Roscommon 17°7, in 
Donegal 12, in Galway and Sligo between 10 and 11 per 
1,000. Compared with the adult male population, however, 
the proportion migrating was 15 per 1,000 for the whole of 
Ireland ; and 198°5 per 1,000, or just one fifth of the adult 
males, in Mayo. 
The majority of these migratory labourers, viz., 15,122, 
shipped to England; 3,614 went to Scotland, the remainder 
