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Company reduced certain rates for the convey- 

 ance of milk, with the intention of assisting the 

 dairy formers, the buyers availed themselves of 

 the opportunity to reduce the prices they paid 

 to the farmers, who were thus no better off 

 than before. Better far would it be if the 

 farmers would organize some system among 

 themselves by which they could secure a greater 

 control over the whole business, instead of 

 simply calling upon the railways to reduce their 

 rates to a level where they would cease to be 

 remunerative. Would it not be possible for the 

 British farmers to create in London a Central 

 Co-operative Creamery Society on lines similar 

 to the one which is being so successfully oper- 

 ated at Budapest, as told on pages 154-5 ? 



The second group of requests had reference 

 to farmyard produce for private householders. 

 The farmers desired arrangements by which 

 small mixed lots of butter, poultry, eggs, etc., 

 could be cheaply and rapidly taken by passenger 

 train, and delivered direct to the houses of con- 

 sumers without intermediate agency of any 

 description. This, of course, was practically the 

 same system as the one referred to above, minus 

 the supply of boxes by the railway company, 

 and the directors willingly agreed that scales of 

 conveyance charges should be issued to meet 



