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alleged preference to imported traffic. There is generally 

 direct competition between railway companies and shipping 

 and canal companies for traffic from ports to urban centres 

 and from one urban centre to another, whereas for the traffic 

 from rural districts to urban centres there is often no direct 

 competition, and agriculturists appear to think that this fact, 

 together with the importunity of the great trading corpora- 

 tions of large towns, has had and will have the effect of causing 

 railway companies generally to devote an undue proportion of 

 their attention to the development of the traffic of their com- 

 petitive and main routes. 



Another section of the report is devoted to a consideration 

 of the recommendations of the Departmental Committee 

 on Fruit Culture, and an explanation is given of the extent 

 to which it has been possible, up to the present, to give effect 

 to them, as well as of the directions in which it is hoped action 

 will be taken in the future. 



The report concludes with a description of the general 

 work of the Division, and of the information which it has been 

 possible to communicate to the public through the medium 

 of this Journal and of the Leaflets. The total number of 

 leaflets sent out was 916,000, and 20 new leaflets were issued. 

 The sale of the bound set of the first 100 leaflets and of 

 the sectional volumes was well maintained; 3,062 copies of the 

 former and 28,721 copies of the latter were disposed of in the 

 course of the year. 



A report on agricultural education in the United States, 

 which has been prepared by Mr. Esme Howard 

 Supplement to the of the British Embassy , Washington, is issued 

 Journal. as a Supplement to the present • number, 

 price 4d. post free. Subscribers to the 

 Journal can obtain this report for 3d. 



By the American Gooseberry Mildew Order of 1907, which came into operation 

 on the 14th December, 1907, the previous local Orders were revoked and this new 

 Order made applicable to all the counties and boroughs 

 The American which had been declared infected up to that date. These 

 Gooseberry Mildew were the Administrative Counties of Gloucester, Worcester, 

 Order Of 1907. Warwick, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Isle of Ely, Lincoln 

 (Parts of Holland), Norfolk, Derby, Leicester, Notting- 

 ham and Hereford, and the Boroughs of Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Worcester, 

 Kidderminster, Birmingham, Coventry, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick, Cambridge, 

 King's Lynn, Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Hereford. 



