AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Sul,—Your correspondent seems indeed to have mistaken your note, as you say in your footnote to his letter. If he takes the trouble to look up the records of bacon prices in the years after the War, and those of 1928 and 1929, he will see that the British public paid as high if not higher prices for their bacon then than they do now. Is it not premature to condemn the Government's schemes: with regard to the Bacon Board at this early period ? If the British farmer is given his chance, and he takes hold of it with both hands, the prices will regain an economic level, which even the poor will be able to pay. Thus the producer and the con- sumer will benefit each other. If there is anyone to blame for the high prices obtaining now and in the past, surely it is the retail men, who kept the prices high even when farmers were only receiving 7s. to 8s. a score, and it is impossible to produce bacon at that price.—I am, Sir, &c.,
D. P. KIRTLAN.
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