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6.20 a.m. and 7.12 p.m. ; Salisbury, 8.15 a.m., 

 and Templecombe 5.15 p.m ; and on Sundays 

 from Yeovil at 5.55 a.m. and 4.33 p.m., and 

 Templecombe at 4.33 p.m. But the farmers 

 require to have their cans back again as soon 

 as possible. So the railway company not only 

 run one series of special trains for the full cans, 

 but they run a further series of specials for 

 the prompt return of the empty ones, making 

 no charge whatever for the latter service. Con- 

 sidering all these things, the scale of charges 

 given above would really seem to be reasonable- 

 ness itself, and if the farmers make less profit 

 than they think they ought to get from the sale 

 of their milk, they can hardly attribute the 

 fact to any greed on the part of the railway 

 companies. 



The very small effect that railway rates should 

 have on the selling price of any article of food 

 in respect to which there has been such organiza- 

 tion as will permit of the despatch of consign- 

 ments in bulk is still more clearly brought out 

 by the circular in regard to the charges for meat. 

 The carriage, for example, from Creditor! to 

 Waterloo, a distance of 170 miles, of three tons 

 of prime English beef would amount to little 

 more than a fifth of a farthing per pound. 



The last example I draw from this very in- 



