26 MARCH 1932, Page 13

The agency by which both producer and consumer are punished

is the purely artificial distinctions between milk for liquid consumption, surplus milk and milk for manufacturing purposes. The wholesalers and retailers use the confused issue —and the confusion in the farmer's mind—to lower prices to the producer without handing on the saving to the consumer. Such is the situation. The more distant dairy farmers arc fined, the whole industry handicapped by the multiplication of middlemen between producers who sells cheap and the consumer who buys dear. What is the remedy? Mr. Prewctt has a solution, new and very thoroughly documented. It deserves the close investigation of all concerned.