ir sh harvest laborers some interesting returns have been published by the department of agri culture for ireland on the subject fit of the annual migrations of the irish harvest laborers the yearly influx into england and scotland which has been going on in much the same way for at least a couple of centuries is now not nearly so great as it was in the days of overpopulation in ireland before the famine but this year there were still nearly 18 irishmen who adopted the old means of lining their pockets against the winter more than three quarters of them were from the province of connaught the rest being ulster men and more than half of them were from county mayo