The farmers are making a welcome move towards combination by
preparing the means of distributing their products direct to the public. Nobody supposes, however, that an adequate organization can be pre- pared in time. =We are therefore faced with the terrors of a milk famine -if there should be no settlement by October 1st. This would mean so much illness, and even mortality, among infants that it cannot be tolerated. _The dispute over a halfpenny a gallon in the price of milk cannot be allowed to hold the health of - the nation to ransom. In the long run the farmers and the distributors must settle their dispute by themselves, but the immediate point is that the care of infants amounts to a public emergency, and the Govern- ment must have some scheme ready for dealing with such an emergency if necessary.
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