They are not by any means overpaid, but their salaries in the aggregate amount to a large annual sum.

Before the creation of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction in 1900 large sums were spent by the I.A.O.S.

not only in its proper work of organisation, but also in giving technical instruction, which was found to be essential to commercial success.

When the Society was relieved of this educational work many of its supporters withdrew their subscriptions under the impression that there was now no longer any need for its continued existence.

But so far from the Society's usefulness having ceased, it has now become more important than ever that the doctrine of organised self-help, which must be the foundation of any sound Irish economic policy, should be insisted upon and put into practical operation as widely as possible.