The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-26
IRELAND MAKING MUNITIONS OF WAR
 ON LARGE SCALE
Many Factories Are Now De- voted to Making Powder
 and Weapons.

Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 26-Ireland is now at work. on a large scale in the manufacturing of munitions of war,
 For several years past there has been only one large Irish factory of war material, Kynoch's in County Wicklow. It is an off-shoot of the Birmingham firm of which Arthur Cham berlain, brother of the famous English statesman, was the head But the necessities of the war has made in as in England, turned other trades in to the munitions business. When the demand was made in Great Brlelan for grsat extension of the manu- factures of. all sorts of war materials, MT. Redmond saw to it that Ireland should have a share in the scheme Representatives of MT. Lloyd Georges S new department came over to Ire land and got in touch with leading business men in Dublin and through out the country. The Dublin Cham Der of Commerce gave active assls- tance and formed a special munitions committee.
 The work is now we'll in hand and no less than one hundred and seventy firms in Ireland are engaged in 1t. Large orders have been placed in Dublin, and one firm has got an order for twenty thousand pounds, a small + figure on the general scale of this war, but a good deal of money for a F city where employment is scarce ana and industry backward. MT. Lloyd George has established in Dublin a branch office which is expected to ensure not only the execution of war contracts but a continuance of gov ernment work after the war. A cen tral arsenal is being constructed ana equipped with special machinery Every available machine is being
 k17o in the city of Dublin Technical Schools for the training of pupils. The en- pfoyes at the new works are to be dl- vided into five classes, skilled and unski11ed- men, skilled and unsk1lleo women, and auxiIaries who will work at times when the regular hands are resting as at week ends. Employment is not to be restricted to men outside military age, the idea being that a munition worker is as useful as a soldier.
 Belfast whose main activity in the war interest has been the increase m the output of shipping from 1t sfa- nous yards has a1so gone seriously into the munition business. Cork and Limerick, and even some Of the small Ter towns throughout the country are also employing all the machinery they can command in making smells or parts of shells.
 Munitions are not the only branch of war trade Of which Ireland has de- manded and received her share. Some ofsthe textile factories have had good orders for clothing materials. Ireland in the past had never secured a fair share Of government expenditures, and at the beginning of the war was greatly hampered in competing for contracts by the fact that depots for examining and receiving goods were in London. Agitation, however, Jed to the establishment of 8 depot in Dublin where certain classes of goods of Irish manufacture are dealt with. But there are still restrictions limiting the classes of goods, and an effortSis be- ing made toH widen the utility of the depot by admitting to it all the goods produced in Ireland which are re- quired for military and other govern ment services.
 Ireland's chief industry is and must remain agriculture, and one of the most indispensable of war munitions is food. A vigorous campaign has been instituted under government auspices to increase the output of be told that her functions was to be the fruitful mother of flocks and herds Now the cry is all for the til- Iage. The difficulty is that the graz ing ranch system which belongs to the old theory has not been abolished
  cess to the land. They are puzzled by the two voices, which they are adress- ed on their duty in the war On the one hand they are told that it is the duty of the farmer to enlist, that the state has done a good deal for the Irish farmer and that his time has come to show his gratitude by should ering a rifle in the new armies. Com ment is freely made on the fact that the farmers and the farmers sons have not enlisted in the same propor- ton as other classes. The complaint is true regards to farmers of all parts of Ireland and of all parties and creed It is true of English farmers as well. But now there is the new campaign for increased food production which cannot be worked if the men leave the land for the armies. So the recruiting sergeant and the government agrl- culturists are getting in each others way.
 That there is room for considerable deveIopment of Irish agriculture is evident from the fact that, according to the statistics given by the head of the Agricultural Department, Ireland actually imports an annual average of sixteen million pounds worth of foodstuffs which could easily be re-, placed by homegrown articles. lie has pointed out that if Germany had titled as little of her soil as Ireland she would have been eXhauSIeo III six months. Germany tills sfxty-fiye pr cent of her arabic land, whereas, he says, Ireland tills only sixteen. The inevita bIe topic of the American Ex- change and the balance of the trade crops even up here, and the Irish far mer is appealed to by the Agriculture minister to help keep down the price of the dollar eby importing less Am erican food. and producing more of his own.
 A WOMAN DOCTOR