FARM PRODUCE REALIZATION AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS AND TRADE DEPRESSION THEIR REMEDY IN THE COMMERCIAL REALIZATION OF HOME-GROWN PRODUCE " BY D. TALLERMAN AUTHOR OF AVAILABLE FOOD FOR THE PEOPLE," "HOW TO MAKE FISH CHEAPER,” "DEAR MEAT, ITS CAUSE AND REMEDY," ETC., ETC., etc. WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. THE COMMERCIAL AND AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVE 20, GREAT ST. HELENS, E.C. AND OF THE AUTHOR, 50, REDCLIFFE ROAD, S. W. 1889. [All rights reserved.] Price Fourteen Shillings. Burgersdijk 7538 hand econ. 1-9-1923 gen. LONDON: GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED, ST. JOHN'S HOUSE, CLERKENWELL ROAD, E.c. PREFACE. To THE READER, Whatever your political views may be, the contents of the following pages will accord with them. If perused in a critical spirit kindly bear in mind that I claim no pretension to literary ability. If i's are not dotted, and t's not crossed, it may be set down as the practice of the college of life where I have passed many years as an ardent student; if the same matter is referred to more than once, it is because my work has been written that it might be read and understood by that most narrow-minded, bigoted, prejudiced, and stubborn class, the British Farmers-to create any impression on whose minds it became necessary that each branch of the subject should be complete in itself and unrefutable. With this object in mind, I have endeavoured to point out the condition of things into which they have drifted, and why they have done so. When it is clearly seen that our agricultural |