Cork County Committee of Agriculture Descriptive List

CC/CM/AG/

scholarships, applicants selected to house premium boars and bulls and applicants selected by the committee to hold poultry stations. Information concerning the recruitment and employment of agricultural and horticultural instructors and inspectors are also recorded in the minutes. Addresses to the committee by department officials including Ministers for Agriculture are noted. The committee’s minutes provide an insight into market prices and industries reliant on agriculture such as the bacon industry, milk, and sugar industries. Reference is made to creameries, mills and distilleries. Agendas for forthcoming meetings are included in the later minute books.

Dates: 10 October 1901 - 29 November 1980

Level of Description: series

Extent: 13 volumes

CC/CM/AG/2/1.

10 October 1901 – 3 October 1908, (127 pp)

Includes :

Live stock scheme for 1902 (2 January 1902)

The committee advertise for a secretary (2 January 1902)

Seeking open shows for the farming community (23 January 1902)

Prize scheme for the Cork Agriculture Society Spring Show (30 January 1902)

Framing of a scheme for itinerant instructors and a poultry scheme for Cork (12

April 1902)

The committee disapprove of the establishment of factory to utilise separated

milk (5 July 1902)

The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction suggests that the

committee’s secretary should visit markets in England and Scotland

(4 February 1905)

CC/CM/AG/2/2.

5 December 1908 - 31 October 1914, (176 pp)

Includes:

The committee seek examination papers for Winter Agriculture Classes from the

Department of Agriculture (6 February 1909, p.84)

Fruit trees are sent to the wrong man, he refuses to give them back (6 February

1909, p.84)