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More farm produce continues to be carried by road and the effect of this is making itself felt in railway returns. There was a drop of 15,000,000 gallons in the milk conveyed by rail during 1930. In 1931 there was a further drop of 7,000,000 gallons, the actual amount carried being 208,000,000 gallons. A further decline of 27 per cent. in 1931, as compared with 14 per cent. in 1930, in the carriage of manures, is recorded in the Ministry of Transport statistics.
There was an increase in the number of pigs carried, but other classes of livestock show a big decline. Cattle decreased by 501,000 (nearly 15 per cent.), calves 79,000 (18 per cent.) and sheep and lambs 1,741,000 (16 per cent.).
A Volume of Metallurgical Abstracts. In that it constitutes the first volume of the Journal of the Institute of Metals to be devoted entirely to metallurgical abstracts, volume 37, which has recently been issued, is particularly note worthy. The abstracts are classified under 20 headings, covering such subjects as properties of metals and alloys, physical and mechanical testing, pyrometry, heat treatment, foundry practice and appliances, etc. The index contains over 20,000 references.
The volume runs to 854 pages, is edited by Mr. G. Shaw Scott, M.Sc., the secretary of the Institute of Metals, 36, Victoria Street, London, S.W.1, by which organization it is published at the price of £4.