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lots. Mixed consignments will be charged at the 

 reduced rates, if the minimum quantity is made up by a 

 combination of the various articles. The Company 

 also announced lower rates for manures and feeding 

 stuffs, grain, cider, potatoes, and roots. 



The South Western Company also adopted a reduced 

 tariff for fruit and vegetables, packed in consignments 

 of I cwt. and upwards, reduced rates for meat, including 

 cartage in London, and for grain, green crops, vege- 

 tables, roots, oil-cake, and packed manure, in loads of 

 not less than 6 tons (which can be made up of any of 

 these articles), between non-competitive stations. There 

 is also a reduced scale for live stock for short-distance 

 traffic between "local and non-competitive" stations. 



The London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company 

 issued reduced rates from all their stations to London 

 markets for fruit and vegetables, and also for feeding 

 stuffs and roots and packed manures in 6-ton lots. The 

 reductions are about 18 per cent. 



The South Eastern Railway Company, in November 



1895, reduced the rates from London to all non-com- 

 petitive stations 25 per cent, on manure in bulk in 

 6-ton lots, outside a radius of twenty miles. In July 



1896, fruit and vegetables for London, cattle feeding 

 stuffs, and packed manures in 6-ton lots were reduced 



15 per cent. The cartage on hops in London was 

 reduced 25 per cent. 



The North Eastern Company in February 1896, 

 adopted an experimental scale of reduced rates between 

 local non-competitive stations (i) for manure in bulk, a 

 minimum truck load of 5 tons ; (2) for grain, potatoes, 

 roots, feeding stuffs, packed manures, minimum of 5 

 tons ; (3) for part truck, small truck and medium truck 

 loads of live stock. 



The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway 

 furnish tables showing reductions in rates for manure 

 in bulk, since prior to December 1881, of from 21 to 29 

 per cent.; for grain, oil-cake, and potatoes, since 1880 of 

 34 per cent, on the average ; for roots, since 1893 from 



16 to 23 per cent. 



