Tun HOPE OF THE FARM.
That is the first point. The second is that we consume in Britain less milk by a very large margin than any other people. To give one exact comparison. The Swedes drink a fraction under one and a half pints a head a day. We drink just a third of a pint. The result is that our physique, especi- ally among those who attend the elementary schools, is some thirty per cent. lower than it might be, than it should be, than it could be. We are dealing not with theory but with proved fact. To ensure the health of its people is the chief duty of any state. Healthy children come first ; but it is also of importance that this island is peculiarly well fitted for producing milk. It possesses the best milch cows and some of the best pastures in the world, and milk production is already the biggest and most important section of our hus- bandry. At present there is some over-production, at least in SIIII liner. If we drank nearly as much as the Scandinavians or Americans, there could be no over-production and agriculture would automatically flourish. The Ministries of Health and Agriculture and of Education should coincide in these ideals.
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