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CHAPTER XIV 



RAILWAY RATES PAGE 



Character of evidence and complaints — Prohibitive and unequal 

 rates — Preferential rates on imported produce — Helpless 

 position of agriculturists and traders — Recent concessions by 

 companies — Recent history of questions. Report of Select 

 Committee — Legislation — Recent decisions as to undue 

 preference, &c. — Right of associations to complain — Right 

 to analyse rate — Indirect increase of rate, &c — Observations 

 and recommendations ...... 260 



CHAPTER XV 

 SMALL HOLDINGS 



Small holdings and the future re-organisation of labour — Isle of Ax- 

 holme, etc. — The New Forest — Cumberland " Salesmen " 

 and other small holders — South Lincolnshire smallholders — 

 The good side of small holdings — Conclusions — Economic 

 difHculties — Co-operative credit banks — Summary of other 

 evidence — Lord Wantage's experiments, etc. — Sir Arthur 

 Arnold's suggestions — Recommendations . . .282 



CHAPTER XVI 



TUBERCULOSIS 



Contagious diseases (Animals) Acts— Tuberculosis — Danish experi- 

 ence and Policy — Sir T. D. Gibson Carmichael's experiment 

 at Castle Craig — The probable money gain from stamping 

 out tuberculosis — Mr Speir's suggestions— Action of France 

 and the French Shorthorn Society — Summary and recom- 

 mendations ....... 300 



CHAPTER XVII 

 general summary of conclusions and recommendations 31i 

 Appendix — 



I. Reasons for dissenting from the Report of the Majority . 321 



II. Summary of Farm Accounts .... 347 



III. Agricultural Holdings Bill (1897) . . . ." 356 



