1904.] 



Railway Rates for Calves. 



293 



Lincoln rams and Volosh ewes showed an improvement in 

 weight and in quantity of wool. 



Pigs formed one of the best items of the show, and included 

 Yorkshires, Berkshires, and Tamworths. One estate furnished 

 140 head of Yorkshires. This breeding establishment has 

 existed for about twelve years, and has shown excellent results. 

 Originally six sows and one boar were imported from the 

 United Kingdom, and last year the estate possessed twenty 

 carefully selected sows for breeding, while every two years new 

 boars are purchased from the United Kingdom. The young 

 pigs were all bought up the first day of the show. In the 

 Yorkshire class of sows bred in Russia the gold medal went 

 to a sow bred from live stock imported from the United 

 Kingdom. 



In the course of the correspondence which passed between 

 this Department and the Railway Clearing House on the 

 subject of railway rates for agricultural 



reference was made to the question of the charges for the 

 carriage of calves by passenger train. The Railway Clearing 

 House have now informed the Board that it has been decided as 

 from September 1st next to adopt the following scale for calves 

 up to 140 lb. in weight, each calf being charged for separately, 

 and the minimum for each consignment to be as for two dogs. 



Up to 56 lb. in weight the ordinary parcels rates to be 

 charged. Over 56 lb., and not exceeding 140 lb. in weight, the 

 ordinary parcels rates up to 56 lb., and the excess above 56 lb., 

 as follows : — 



[F.O. Report, Animal Series, No. 3232.] 



Up to 30 miles 



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Above 200 



