Nicholas Wilcox Cundy

“ If there was a conveyance in your neighbourhood, with double the speed of travelling, at a reduction of price, that would be a great convenience to you and persons in your trade?
Yes; I have considerable business to attend to at home as a farmer. ”

“ Would a Railroad be equally serviceable for sending dead meat which had been slaughtered in the country?
Yes.
30. What is the charge for driving a sheep?
One shilling a head.
31. How much additional charge would you be willing to incur to have your sheep conveyed?
I think more in proportion to the sheep, because they are longer on the road.
32. Your opinion as a farmer is, that you would be willing to pay more for sheep than beasts?
I have always understood that a sheep driven eighty miles wastes 8 lbs.; that is a stone. ”