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the vendee, who might send it where and to whom he pleased, and 
when he pleased, and over which disposition the seller could exercise 
no control. We find no evidence in this case to dislodge the pre- 
sumption which primd facie arises, that the place of delivery is the 
place for inspection. To hold otherwise would be to expose the 
vendor to unknown risks, impossible of calculation, when the con- 
tract was entered into. It was argued that Theddingworth Station 
was a mere roadside station, and that there was no opportunity there 
of comparing the bulk with the sample, and that consequently the 
station was not the place for inspection, and that some other place 
was, and that this was the warehouse of the brewers to whom the 
defendant might have chanced to have sent the barley. The evidence 
given shows that the bulk could be inspected in the sacks in the trucks 
at the station. The suggestion that the barley had to be shot before 
inspection is untenable, and there is no evidence to support it. More- 
over, the letters of October 16 show that neither the defendant nor 
the brewers considered that there was any difficulty whatever in 
taking a bulk sample at the station — the one saying that he had had 
one taken, and the other saying that he should have done so. It 
seems to us that there is nothing in the contract itself, nor any evi- 
dence to show that by usage of trade as applied to such a contract 
or otherwise the primd facie place for inspection had been altered. 
In our judgment, under the contract the place of delivery named was 
the place where the inspection was to be had, and consequently 
Theddingworth Station was the place where rejection should have 
taken place, and not the premises of the brewers at Sileby. When 
the defendant took possession of the barley at the station and ordered 
it to be sent to his sub-vendees the property in the barley passed to 
him, and his right of rejection was then gone.” 
Thus the farmer was successful in his appeal, and the corn-dealer 
had to pay him for the barley. 
S. B. L. Druce. 
PRICES OF COMMODITIES DURING THE LAST 
SEVEN YEARS (1886-92). 
On April 18, 1893, I had the honour of reading a paper on the 
above subject before the Royal Statistical Society, and I now beg 
to offer the following extracts relating to those sections of the subject 
which are of interest to agriculturists. Readers who may desire 
further details are referred to the Journal of the Royal Statistical 
Society , where the original paper will be published in full. 
In Tables I. and II. will be found average prices of agricultural 
produce during the last fifteen years, and the index numbers since 1846 
of the groups of articles, vegetable food, animal food, and materials, 
and of the grand total of all commodities, also of silver and of the 
