27 APRIL 1929, Page 3

Mr. Baldwin has been chaffed rather maliciously for solemnly stating

that Cornish broccoli was finding a market on the Continent. " What a contribution to the unemployment question ! " it is said. No one who grows or sells vegetables, however, needs to be told that Mr. Baldwin's remark had real significance. All our lives we have been accustomed to see vegetables in a lament- able state after only a comparatively short journey to market. If our growers can choose, grade, and pack their products so- that they fetch a good price after a journey to a foreign 'market they are doing something that would have been thought impossible a few years ago. It is true that one swallow does not make a summer, but only a fool would deny that one swallow is good enough proof that summer is coming.