5 DECEMBER 1931, Page 3

The Price of Milk The .hard-pressed dairy farmers have found

a measure of relief in the decision of the Joint Milk Committee of the National Farmers' Union to 'raise the price paid by the distributor for milk by fourpence a gallon for this month .and the next. The price to the consumer has been raised by the same amount—and no more—so that the public may feel that the extra penny a quart is going direct to the producer. It is hoped that the ,dairy farmers _will now be able. to feed their cows more liberally . and thus to increase the milk supply. The new agreement seems to show that the farmers are learning to combine in self-defence. More co-operation of the kind is needed if other British farm products besides milk are to prove remunerative to the grower as well as to the middleman.