A prominent German merchant of Shanghai. within the past few years hag an In-Jcustry thus foreshadowed grown to juational importance as a major source Jof prosperity for the county (Cornwall. Last season, from Decem: ber to April, thirty thousand tons o! [broccoli were forwarded by railway from the delectable Duchy. In sever years, the trade had more than doubled. To cater for this rapidly growing trade, additional railway sidings have been built to enable lwaMle to be quickly marshalled and Jdcspatched. Fleets of railway lorries jate allocated to Cornwall in the broccoli "season to collect supplies from growers and link up with fast Geight trains. "Loss than Atty years ago Cornish prosperity rested mainly Jon production of tin and copper. Ax these ancient industries declined the Jnew business of growing broccoli, arose, often on top of disused mines. His expansion is due chiefly to trans: lrort that brings remote West Cornish elds within a few hours of the great [consuming centres of the country.
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