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Chester. You will see from the figures the amounts they paid on 

 those consignments. Had they grouped their separate lots into 

 one, they would have saved just 7 IDS., and a saving such as that 

 might make all the difference in their returns. Though it may not 

 have been my place to speak, I have told them plainly what they 

 might do if they would. But the growers here are so jealous of 

 one another that there seems to be no possible chance of their 

 acting together. 



In point of fact, very little advantage indeed has 

 been taken by farmers and producers of the concession 

 referred to above, though it may very well happen that 

 a salesman will advise a number of senders in one 

 district to leave him to pay the carriage at his end, 

 in which case he constitutes the one consignee, 

 and pays on a lower scale for the sum total of the 

 consignments received. Whether or not the growers 

 are likely to gain any advantage, or whether or not it is 

 more likely that the salesman charges against each 

 sender the amount that person would have paid had 

 he settled with the railway company at once for his 

 own particular lot (the salesman thus having a further 

 profit), I leave my readers to say for themselves. 



What can be done in the way of securing greater 

 economy in rail transport is very well shown in reference 

 to that dead-poultry business at Heathfield and Uckfield, 

 of which I have already spoken in an earlier chapter. 

 All that seems to be needed is just a little effective 

 organization on the part either of a co-operative body 

 or of private enterprise. In these particular instances 

 it is private enterprise to which the results attained 

 are due. 



At Heathfield there are two firms of carriers, each 

 of which collects consignments of dead poultry from 

 the chicken-fatters within a radius of ten miles of the 

 railway-station, grouping those, say, for London into a 

 single consignment in order to get the advantage of the 

 lowest rates. In this way the 10 or 12 tons despatched 



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