ON AGRICULTURE TO DENMARK 



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In contrast with the moderation of these rates it may be 

 remarked that the charge for conveyance of milk from Kilmarnock 

 to Glasgow is three-farthings per gallon, the distance being 

 twenty-four miles. This is three times the cost of a pound of 

 butter from Copenhagen to Leith, and one pound of butter is the 

 product of two-and-a-half gallons of milk. 



The following table of rates for the carriage of butter and eggs 

 in small lots at owner's risk in Denmark and in England may also 

 be interesting : — 



Carriage of Butter and Eggs. 



The vexed question of through or preferential rates does not 

 directly arise in connexion with the Danish railwajs. The 

 peculiar organisation of the export trade has led to the produce 



