ld have the power of displacing Irish Ministers.

[53] See footnote, p. 159.

[54] "Organization and Policy of the Department," Official Pamphlet.

[55]

STATISTICS OF THE IRISH AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION MOVEMENT TO DECEMBER
31, 1909, WITH NUMBER OF SOCIETIES IN EXISTENCE ON DECEMBER 31, 1910
(SUPPLIED BY THE I.A.O.S.):

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Description. |Number of |Membership.|Paid-up |Loan |Turnover.
|Societies. | |Shares. |Capital. |
|-----------| | | |
|1910.|1909.| | | |
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Creameries | 392 | 380 | 44,213 | 138,354 | 111,365 | 1,841,400
Agricultural | 169 | 155 | 16,050 | 6,253 | 40,326 | 112,222
Credit | 237 | 234 | 18,422 | -- | 56,469 | 57,641
Poultry | 18 | 18 | 6,152 | 2,292 | 4,026 | 64,342
Industries | 21 | 21 | 1,375 | 1,267 | 1,450 | 7,666
Miscellaneous| 37 | 15 | 4,633 | 15,015 | 2,864 | 48,987
Flax | 9 | 9 | 589 | 482 | 5,796 | 2,286
Federations | 3 | 3 | 227 | 6,753 | 6,360 | 259,925
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| 886 | 835 | 91,661 | 170,416 | 228,656 | 2,394,469
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[56] An Irish Trademark has been secured, and has proved of great value
"Irish Weeks," for the furtherance of the sale of Irish products, are
held. The organ of the Association is the _Irish Industrial Journal_,
published weekly in Dublin.

[57] On December 31, 1909, Irish was taught as an "extra subject" in
3,006 primary schools out of 8,401, and in 161 schools in Irish-speaking
districts in the West a bi-lingual programme of instruction was in force
(Report of Committee of National Education, 1910). Forty-six thousand
pupils passed the test of the inspectors. Irish in 1910 was made a
compulsory subject for matriculation at the National University.

[58] The election by Nationalist votes of Lord Ashtown, a militant
Unionist peer of the most uncompromising type, in the spring of 1911 to
one of the Galway District Councils is a good recent example of this
tendency.

[59] Permissive powers exist for County Councils to enforce compulsory
attendance.

[60] Including