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grower in the district has three or four farms which, in 

 the aggregate, comprise over 1,000 acres. Of these 

 about 200 acres will always be under green-pea crops. 

 The smaller farms consist mostly of a few acres, and the 

 majority might not have more than i acre at a time 

 under green peas. 



On an average busy night during the 1905 season 

 70 tons of peas, or about 35 waggons, were sent from 

 Goole. The total quantity forwarded from Goole 

 during the season was 785 tons, this being the largest 

 tonnage of peas from any one station on the North- 

 Eastern Railway. Three-quarters of the green-pea 

 traffic from Goole will, however, be put on rail by 

 three large growers. 



The green-pea areas around Church Fenton and 

 Selby do not extend for more than three miles from the 

 places named, but the production is such that on 

 an average busy night in a season 20 tons will be 

 forwarded from Church Fenton, and 40 tons (represent- 

 ing about 20 waggons) from Selby. Including the 

 traffic on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (which 

 will handle 200 tons of peas on a busy night) and 

 the Great Central, the total consignments of green 

 peas from South Yorkshire in an average season may 

 be put at from 7,000 to 8,000 tons. The places to 

 which they go include London, Manchester, Liverpool, 

 Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Birmingham, Hull, Bradford, 

 and Blackburn. 



Among other parts of the country where green peas 

 are produced on a considerable scale, I may mention 

 the Bridgwater district of Wiltshire, from which centre 

 an average of 6 railway trucks a night (representing 

 about 12 tons of peas) will be consigned either to 

 London or to South Wales during a period of six weeks. 



