152 AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION 



British agriculturist had regarded the earlier advances made 

 by the railway companies — a distrust inspiring the idea that 

 the companies were merely seeking some advantage for 

 themselves ; and (2) the absolute need for independent 

 educational and propagandist efforts as a means of converting 

 the producers from their old prejudices, of bringing home to 

 them the practical advantages of combination, and, still 

 more, of providing the machinery by which such com- 

 bination can be carried into effect. 



Motor Services. 



One interesting development in the application of com- 

 bination to transport is represented by the motor wagon 

 service established in 1904 by the North Eastern Railway 

 Company as a means of communication between their 

 railway system and the depot — now a commodious building 

 — of the Brandsby (Yorkshire) Agricultural Trading Asso- 

 ciation, Limited. The service has been of great advantage 

 in many ways to growers in the district, but the inauguration 

 of it would have been wholly impracticable had there been 

 no local society to group consignments, to bulk orders for 

 requirements, and otherwise to organise the traffic generally, 

 supplementing efficiently, in these respects, the means which 

 the railway company themselves were prepared to adopt in 

 the joint interests of the agriculturists and of their own 

 traffic. . 



A like service was also established by the Great Western 

 Railway Company in the Teme Valley ; but in this instance 

 the results were not considered sufficiently encouraging to 

 warrant the continuance of the arrangement. There would, 

 in fact, seem to be a tendency on the part of agriculturists 

 to assume that, when a railway company provides the motor 

 wagon, they need only send by it when their own horses, 

 vehicles and drivers are otherwise engaged, the consequence 

 being that there is a risk of a regular service not paying 

 expenses. Whatever the reason, it is a matter for regret 

 that these motor services have not been established far more 

 generally. 



