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Secondarij or Narrow Gauge Railways 
(3) Prices of produce in outlying districts would be equalised. 
In a country like England meat ought to be the same price 
everywhere. 
(4) The magnificent old mail-coach roads would be utilised, 
and numerous localities and villages awakened from the torpid 
condition to which they were reduced by the construction of 
the large lines of railways and the consequent diversion of 
traffic. 
To travel by existing railways from country districts, long 
distances must be traversed before the station is reached, and rates 
for short distances are high ; whereas an agricultural railway 
running on the high road at low speed can take up passengers 
and goods at any point, and the conductor can be settled with 
on the spot. 
The first idea of a railway for strictly agricultural purposes 
was Grant's system of rails fastened to wooden frames, which 
could be laid on soft or hard ground by agricultural labourers, 
in any direction, for the harvesting of root crops. It was 
exhibited at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Leeds, in 
1861. 
weight of materials cairied in and out of tlie Clapliani Park Farm Estate is 
here given : — • 
Estimate of Stock and Materials, &c., broiiglit to and taken from Clatham 
Park Estate during Twelve Months, in Tons. 
Bought. 
Tons. 
cwts. 
qrs. 
Tons. 
cvvts. 
qrs. 
Stock (Live Stock) 
12 
8 
2 
Cake, Corn, and Feeding Stuffs.. 
250 
0 
0 
30 
10 
0 
38 
0 
0 
10 
0 
0 
Clinkers "1 -v- n i f 
Gravel | For^e^vKoad .. ..| 
200 
250 
0 
0 
0 
0 
150 
0 
0 
Coal 
tiO 
0 
0 
Bricks and Drain Tiks 
20 
0 
0 
1020 
18 
2 
Sold. 
45 
0 
0 
Wood" 
30 
0 
0 
Stock (Live Stock) 
33 
0 
0 
1 
0 
0 
Milk and butter. Eggs 
I 
0 
0 
13 
0 
111 
13 
0 
1132 
11 
2 
■* Most of the corn, bad quality, is con^umed upon the Farm. Kstate tiOO acres in roiuid numbers. 
