[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I suggest that
there are two questions which the farming interest would doubtless like to see dealt with by Mr. Philip Morrell in the next or a succeeding article :— 1. Is it the case that a monopolist body (presumably a com- bination of the Co-operative Societies) fixes and maintains
• standard prices in Denmark at a remunerative rate to the producer ; and, if so, how such prices are maintained against the 'world 'without a 'measure, direct or indirect, of protection ? 2. Is not Danish agriculture almost. entirely confined to dairying and its allied production, except perhaps for the 'corn consumed at home ? What the N.F.U. seems to me to say is not that the British farmer cannot help himself, but ' that he cannot grow wheat at present prices. We ought to be 'able to supply ourselves with dairy produce, but it may be at the expense of corn for human consumption.—! am,
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