Food from the Farm Sut.—Your note, "Food from the Farm,"
shows a misconception of the powers of an agricultural marketing board in its suggestion that a board might put the prices up. Under the Amending Act of 1949 a board cannot fix prices, and its membership must include consumers.
The N.F.U. has no other pretensions than what are put into its head by the farmers who Constitute it. There are very few fanners outside its entirely voluntary membership, and it is not therefore quite to con- sistent is you believe for you to show friendship to the farmers and solicitude for their freedom without giving us some freedom to say how we think that our produce should be oaarieted in Our own and the public interest It is not only Sir James Turner who pith his faith on marketing boards ; he speaks for us all, and right glad are we to have
his outstanding sagacity and breadth Of vision at our' head. am, Sir,
yours sincerely, _ _ J. A. DUNCAN. Home Farm, Landican, Birkenhead.
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