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experiment of growing cabbages is also being 

 tried at Girvan, lower rates have been granted 

 in respect to these as well. 



In Wigtonshire and other parts of Scotland 

 it was found some years ago that the farmers 

 were clearing out of their farms, and that the 

 landlords were becoming poorer and poorer 

 owing to the agricultural depression. There- 

 upon the railways lowered their rates for agricul- 

 tural necessaries taken into these districts, and 

 from every agricultural district in Scotland 

 where such rates were not already in force they 

 made special rates for grain, potatoes, and other 

 agricultural products to the large centres of 

 consumption either in Scotland or in England, 

 thus helping considerably to bring about the 

 improvement that has since been experienced in 

 the localities in question. 



Then there is the case of "The Bucks Arrange- 

 ment," to which reference should be made as 

 one that is, in various respects, especially in- 

 structive. 



This " arrangement " was instituted on the 

 London and North Western Railway to facili- 

 tate the despatch of ducks, fowls, butter, etc., 

 direct from the senders' doors to London 

 salesmen, and to ensure, also, the prompt 

 receipt by the senders of the amounts due to 



