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Mr. Wallace gives details as to what is being done in 

 various districts, including Clonakilty (Co. Cork), 

 Kilmore (Co. Wexford), Lissadel and Ballincar (Co. 

 Sligo), Murroughs (Co. Clare), Rush (Co. Dublin), and 

 various parts of Co. Down, and he concludes : 



Marketing has been much better done this year, growers 

 no doubt profiting from the mistakes of previous years. The visits 

 of the Scotch and English merchants had also a good effect, 

 as they furnished much useful information. Thus it may be 

 expected that in another year growers will be prepared to meet any 

 marketing emergency. 



In various parts of the United Kingdom potato- 

 growing has relieved, more or less, such agricultural 

 depression as may have previously been felt there, and 

 placed good opportunities in the way of those who 

 were alike in a position and shrewd and enterprising 

 enough to take advantage of them. On this point, 

 however, it should be added that potato-growing can 

 evidently be more profitably followed by producers on 

 a large scale, having all the advantages of labour- 

 saving appliances, than by market-gardeners, allotment- 

 holders, and other spade-workers on comparatively small 

 lines. 



In the season of 1905 the Great Western Railway 

 Company brought from West Cornwall to various 

 points, for distribution thence throughout the United 

 Kingdom, the record total of 19,092 tons of broccoli. 

 Allowing thirteen crates to the ton, and an average 

 of five dozen heads to the crate, this would represent a 

 total of (in round figures) 14,900,000 head of broccoli 

 produced in a single corner of the country in a single 

 season. 



The story of the conditions under which this sub- 

 stantial industry has been developed is an interesting 



