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of different weights obtaining in different 

 counties led to fraud and confusion all round. 



" That motor waggons were by far the 

 best means of transport, and that as they 

 were so expensive they should be owned 

 co-operatively." 



In November of last year 1902 the Board 

 of Agriculture published a most interesting 

 report on the " Dutch Brined Vegetable Dutch Brined 



Vegetable 



Industry." l As the result of a deputation to industry 

 the Board, from the Biggleswade Trades and 

 Agricultural Association, as to the serious 

 effects of the Dutch competition on the brined 

 vegetable industry in the country, Mr R. 

 F. Crawford was instructed to visit the 

 Netherlands and inquire into the matter, 

 hence the report which is written with a fresh- 

 ness and absence of officialism which makes 

 the pamphlet almost light reading. There is 

 a chapter (p. 20) devoted to " Co-operation co-operative 

 amongst Dutch Market Gardeners," from 



Societies 



1 Report on the Dutch Brined Vegetable Industry, Eyre and i" , e . , 

 Spottiswoode, 8d. 



