1904. ] Recent Publications of the Board. 



The Board desire to draw the attention of farmers to the fact 



that it may occasionally happen, through an oversight, that the 



rate charged by railway companies for the 



Inclusion of conveyance of goods, particularly in the 

 Cartage Charges \ „ . , , 



in Railway Rates- case ot sma *l consignments, may include a 



charge for collection and delivery, when, as 

 a matter of fact, the collection and delivery have not been 

 performed by the companies themselves. 



A case of this kind was recently brought to the notice of the 

 Board by one of their honorary agricultural correspondents, in 

 which a farmer was charged an apparently excessive rate for 

 carriage of straw by rail. On enquiry it was ascertained that 

 included in that sum were charges for collection and delivery, 

 and loading and unloading, both at the forwarding and receiving 

 stations, services which in this case were not performed by the 

 railway companies concerned. 



When this was pointed out the railway companies at once 

 agreed to give a rebate for the proportion of the rate assigned 

 for collection and delivery and loading and unloading. 



Farmers should be careful, therefore, to see that the rates 

 charged on their goods are exclusive of cartage when con- 

 signments are only made from station to station. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have now issued 



the first hundred of their leaflets in book form, so that farmers 



and others may more easily keep them for 



Recent purposes of reference. They are neatly 



Publications £ • , \ . „ , . , . , , . , 

 of the Board. bound in stiff boards, and may be obtained 



post free from the Office of the Board, 

 4, Whitehall Place, London, S.W., price 6d. The leaflets 

 included in this set comprise 8 leaflets relating to Acts of 

 Parliament ; 16 dealing with farm animals, including poultry ; 

 10 dealing with wild birds ; 49 dealing with insects and fungi 

 injurious to crops ; and 17 dealing with miscellaneous subjects 

 of interest to farmers. 



The list of leaflets has recently been enlarged by the following- 

 additions, of which single copies may be obtained free of charge 



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