Cork County Committee of Agriculture Descriptive List

CC/CM/AG/

Enclosure:

Envelope addressed to Mr M. Finn, M.C.C, 31 Pierce Street Clonakilty (p.308)

CC/CM/AG/2/3.

28 November 1914 – 12 December 1925, (240 pp)

Includes:

Bringing farmers into contact with the military (28 November 1914)

Horticulture instruction for Drishane Convent (28 November 1914)

The danger of mares becoming exhausted due to war (5 December 1914)

Communication between the war office and farmers (2 January 1915)

Sub Committee Meeting, War Food Supply (9 January 1915)

Special meeting with reference to food production committee (31 July 1915)

Experiment, feeding dairy cows with cake (7 August 1915)

The Gentlemen’s Volunteer Patrol at Mill Cove, Rosscarbery (7 August 1915)

Committee meeting to consider live stock and agriculture schemes for 1916 -

1917 (15 May 1916)

Death of Mr Carroll, Secretary of the Cork County Committee of Agriculture (19

August 1916)

Complaints by butter buyers (2 December 1916)

Alarm at the shortage of potato crop in Ireland (2 December 1916)

Permission sought for Roman Catholics to work on Sundays (3 March 1917)

The linking of the Cork and Bandon and Cork and Macroom Railways (4 August

1917)

The butter making industry in Ireland (6 October 1917)

The question of home production of sugar in light of the sugar famine (3

November 1917)

A lecture of agricultural subjects to be provided to solider patients at the

Fermoy Military Hospital (6 April 1918)

Shortage of milk in the United Kingdom (25 May 1918)

The committee call for the provision of sufficient numbers of ships for the Port

of Cork, ships to replace port owned ships lost at sea (1 June 1918)

The import of Irish Cured Mackerel by the United States Government (3 August