618 Agriculture and the New Railway Rates. [Oct.; 



by merchandise train. If conveyed by passenger train, 



the increase is 75 per cent. 

 The under-mentioned are subject to an increase of 100 per 

 cent, plus a flat rate addition per truck, part truck or ton, 

 with a maximum addition of 4s. per ton in the case of class A 

 traffic. Details will be given on application to the railway 

 authorities: — 



Live stock, at truck rates or at head rates; grain and 

 cake for cattle feeding; vegetables, including potatoes; 

 agricultural machinery, other than parts already specified; 

 returned empties, whether by passenger or goods train; 

 basic slag; coprolites and rock phosphate — ground or 

 unground; and pyrites, burnt or unburnt. 

 An increase of 75 per cent, is made in the case of: — 



Milk and perishable merchandise, conveyed by passenger 

 train. 



Fifty per cent, increase with flat rate additions is added in 

 the case of: — 



Chalk, kelp, lime, limestone ground, manure, compost 

 of manure, fish, gypsum, mucilage, sud cake, sugar scum, 

 animal offals, fish offals, potash manures, salt, sea-sand, 

 sodium sulphate, soot, spent hops, and certain refuse 

 intended for manure. 

 At the same time, it is important to note that what is 

 described as packed manure, together with basic slag and lime, 

 conveyed by merchandise train for use as agricultural manure 

 in the United Kingdom, enjovs a special concession. For this 

 traffic the rates will be 50 per cent, above those in operation 

 on 14th January, 1920, plus the flat rates, and are irrespective 

 of distance. One important feature in this connection must 

 not be overlooked. In order to take advantage of the con- 

 cession, the fertilisers must be dispatched in loads of not less 

 than 2 tons, and it is hoped that, where possible, full loads of 

 4 to 5 tons will be consigned. These " packed " manures are 

 as follows : — 



Nitrate and sulphate of ammonia, artificial manure, 

 basic slag, blood or bones, calcium cyan amide, carbonate 

 of lime, coconut refuse, flue-dust from blast furnaces 

 and cement works; guano, kainit, leather shavings, 

 nitrate and superphosphate of lime, nitrate of soda, 

 sulphate of potash, shoddy dust, carbonised or not 

 carbonised; shoddy manure, and willowers' waste refuse. 

 As the modified percentage additions apply only to fertilisers 

 intended for agricultural purposes in the United Kingdom,. 



