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factor which has arisen out of the initial ones which 

 favoured production. This is one of the few dis- 

 tricts where, owing to the large amount of produce 

 grown, the railway companies and the local people 

 have been able to work together to their mutual 

 advantage. The special railway rates which have 

 been granted in recent years contribute largely 

 towards widening the area for distribution in pro- 

 portion as the area of production is enlarging. This 

 is also helped by the fact that there are fourteen 

 railway-stations within a radius of five miles round 

 Evesham. 



5. The security for improvements which is 

 guaranteed by the Evesham Custom of the new 

 tenant agreeing with the other privately on the 

 sale of the ' ingoing.' Every man knows that what 

 he puts into the land he will get back with interest, 

 which is a great incentive to high cultivation. 



6. The variety of crops grown, by which means 

 the Evesham men have discovered how to insure 

 themselves against the entire ruin which would 

 often otherwise ensue from the late frosts. 



It will be seen that out of these six factors, four 

 have nothing to do with the inherent natural cir- 

 cumstances of the district, but have arisen naturally 

 in course of time out of the two first. Moreover, 

 when considering these two namely, climate and 

 soil it is noticeable that they are subject to the 

 drawbacks of other areas. In the case of climate, 

 the very earliness of the growth causes, as regards 

 many crops, a greater damage by late frosts than 



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