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they get about 149s. They generally pay about 125s. a cask, 

 leaving them a margin of 24 s. The grocer's profits are kept fairly 

 low because of the competition with the Maypole Dairy Company, 

 which sells the same butter at is. 2d. a pound (28 cents). 



The third method of sending butter from the Danish cream- 

 eries to England, namely, by selling to the Danish Cooperative 

 Selling Society, was very little used in sending butter to London. 

 We could obtain no definite information as to the working of 

 this society. 



PEACHES IN LYONS, FRANCE 

 By Grafton L. Wilson 



Lyons was, at one time, a very important market for peaches 

 grown, in the surrounding country and also for fruit sent from 

 further south and from Spain. The city is, however, no longer 

 the important center that it was ten or twelve years ago. The 

 main cause for the decline of Lyons as an outlet for native fruit 

 is the growing tendency for the buyers to go to the growing 

 districts and buy from the farmers. Up to ten years ago the 

 railroads made special rates to Lyons from Spain and the South 

 so that it was the center for all fruit coming into the region, but 

 these rates are now extended to all the cities of that part of the 

 country and fruit is shipped directly. Large quantities of fruit 

 are still handled at Lyons, however, and the market in this city 

 affords a very good opportunity to observe both the sale of native 

 fruit for shipment to Paris, Germany, and other points, and the 

 sale of imported fruit for local consumption. 



Peaches which are not grown in the immediate vicinity of 

 Lyons are handled by commission agents. The expenses of 

 selling are as follows : 



Commission, usually 6 per cent 



Rent of containers 0.15 francs 



Unloading per package o. 10 francs 



Handling per package 0.20 francs 



Cartage per 100 kilos 0.75 francs 



Freight per ton from the peach-growing re- 

 gions of the south of France .... 30-40 francs 

 Return of empties 0.10 francs 



