The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

and their families can be reached di-
rectly. Under this provision "a in
structors have been engaged in various
parts of the country, giving instruc-
ton in agriculture, horticulture, but
ter-making and poultry culture. Among
other duties of itinerant instructors
are included visits to farms, laying out
of demonstration plots and the insti-
tuting' of experiments dealing with the
principal crops raised in the district.
During the summer months these in
structors are employed in connection
with the scheme of prizes for Gotta ges
and small farms.
Sixth, A higher institution for train
ing women in the dor7,Nstic economy
of the farm is maintained. Such in
Institute, at Cork, and at the Ulster
Dairy school,, at Cookstown.
Seventh, There are local day schools
for the training of young women in
rural domestic economy. At the pres
<ent time there are nine of these schools
in operation in various parts of Ire
land and their number will in all pro-
liability go on increasing. In several
of these schools the classes are open
to the housewives as well as to girls.
Two other schools, the Avondale For
estry station, at Rathdrum, and the
School of Agriculture of the University
of Dublin, should be mentioned. In the
prenticeS for from one to three years,
and in the latter practical instruction
in agriculture is given to students on
a farm of 500 acres belonging to the
professor of agriculture in the institu-
ton.
for various purposes, as indicated be-
low, is in the hands of the Irish Agri-
cultural Organization society, an or
ganization similar to those of Eng
land and Scotland, but existing indie
pendently though keeping in touch
with them through a joint board of
organiza ton, formed in 1905
OF these various societies none are
more interesting in their workings
than those which have to do with the
cultivation of flax. Recognizing that
Irish flax has not really deteriorated
in quality in latter years, and that
the falling off in flax-growing in Ire
land is not due to any change in eli
matte conditions, the Irish Agricul-
tural Organization society has set
the use of superior seed, by proper
methods of tillage, sleeping and
scutching, and by cooperation be-
tween the growerfi the scutcher and
the manufacturer, they can raise just
as good a product as can their for
eign competitors. They point out to
the farmer that combinations exist in
every branch of the industry except
alone should convince them that com
bination is essential among them
selves. They urge that farmers shall
hire, or own and work scutching mills
so as to insure the most careful and
economical treatment of the straw,
that they shall establish expert mental
plots or fields and that they shall
obtain expert advice and instruction
in the growing and after treatment
of the crop.
The latest available returns give the
of various kinds of co-opera-
tive societies in Ireland as follows:
Dairy societies, 292; auxiliary socie
ties, not separately registered, 81;
agricultural societies, 1876; poultry So
cieties, "a; credit societies, 26S; home
societies, Sc; beekeepers' So
cieties, 3; flax societies, ~; fedora
tons of societies, 4; miscellaneous, in
GLIDING bacon-curing societies, ~. The
total number of societies, according to
this report, was S81; membership,
s5,s39; paid up share capital, $780,
600; loan capital, $1,000, 1000; turn
over, $4,000, 00O.-Orchard and Farm.