Cork County Committee of Agriculture Descriptive List

CC/CM/AG/

Record of flood damage and call for the drainage of the River Awbeg (12 June

1926)

Criticism of the cost of shipping freights of cattle to England (13 March 1927)

Call for the establishment of a sugar beet factory in the county of Cork (9 July

1927)

Call for the government to prohibit the importation of maize products and

foreign meets (14 May 1928)

Call for legislation to ensure that bacon is labelled with its county of origin (10

September 1928)

Proposed prizes suggested by the Cork branch of the Irish Dairy Shorthorn

Breeders Society (8 December 1928)

The committee agree to support a propaganda movement to encourage

improvement in poultry and egg production (9 February 1929)

Exclusion of beef from the Irish Free State by the British War Office (11 May

1929)

Proposed grant for farmers to purchase artificial manure due to shortage of

fodder arising from bad weather (8 November 1930)

Should the Irish language be included in scholarships? (12 April 1930)

Proposal to establish co-operative jam and canning factories (13 June 1931)

Request to send an investigator to Cork from Dublin to investigate the claim that

Cork men have discovered a cure for the successful treatment of fruit and forest

trees (13 August 1932)

The selection of contestants for the National Ploughing Contest (13 January

1934)

Proposal for the establishment of a credit system for pig farmers (1 January

1935)

Call for a better method of distributing licences under the British Import Quota

(8 December 1934)

The committee adjourns their meeting due to the imprisonment of colleagues (2

May1936)

The committee protest against increases to official salaries (2 May 1936)

The impact of the Economic War (16 January 1937)

Call for the minister of agriculture to abolish cattle export licences (4 December