The long and short haul cases also remind one of home in about the same ratio that a raspberry bush reminds one of a full grown oak. Both personal preference and the long-haul discrimination are comparatively rare in England. The greatest resemblance to America is in the rates on imports. The English railway manager has as good an appetite for foreign goods as any American manager, and in this matter the law does not tie him up as it does in so many respects with its maximum rates and large discretion in the Railway Commissioners to prevent excessive rates and undue preference. Foreign linen goes from Liverpool to London for $6.10 a ton while home linen pays $9.25 or 50 percent more. Foreign woolen and worsted goods are carried from Manchester to London for $6.10, against $9.75 or 60 percent more for English goods. Foreign timber travels from Hartlepool to Wimeaton for $3.12 a ton while English timber pays $7.50 or 130 percent more. English dressed meats from Liverpool to London $12.50 a ton, American meat $6.25, just half the home charge. American cattle slaughtered at the wharf in Glasgow, $11.25 to London, home beef, $19.25. Cheese goes all the way from New York past Chelford and other English stations for less than the rate from those stations to London. “Foreign hops are conveyed from Boulogne, via Folkestone, to London at $4.37 per ton, while the charge from Ashford, on the same line of railway and much nearer to London, is $8.75—or just twice the amount for about half the distance.... The rates for imported butter, cheese, bacon, lard, and wool from Southampton Docks to London, distance seventy-six miles, is $1.50 per ton. From Botley in the same county, and a similar distance, the rate for all these goods is $4.80, or 219 percent more than for foreign stuff. The difference in rates between Southampton Dock station (foreign) and the Southampton Town station (home) is as follows: Hops $1.50 and $5; apples $1.25 and $3.22; pressed hay $1.25 and $2.50; eggs $1.66 and $5. Further, Professor Hunter showed that while French fruit is charged at the rate of 4½ cents per ton per mile to London by the South Eastern, the same company charge Kentish farmers 11 cents per ton per mile, or more than double.”[422] The London _Times_ declares that “there are no arguments within the range of human ingenuity that will convince a Sussex hop-grower of the equity of an arrangement by which foreign hops are brought from the other side of the Channel for less than he has to pay to get across Surrey.... For nothing can shake the belief of the home producer, and in our view nothing ought to shake it, in the argument that if these low rates pay the companies, he is shamefully overcharged, while if they do not pay, he is still overcharged to cover the loss and bring up the average.”