19 SEPTEMBER 1931, Page 3

* * * Milk Prices The National Farmers' Union, after

negotiations with the milk traders, has been obliged to accept on behalf of the dairy farmers an average price of ls. 04d. per gallon for the coming year. The milk traders contended that the consumer in London and elsewhere must have his milk at 6d. a quart, instead of 7d., in the winter as well as in the summer. Furthermore, the creameries profess their inability to compete with imported butter and cheese if they had to pay the farmer more. On the other hand, it is said that the dairy farmers cannot supply milk with any profit at the lower price, so that they are faced with the same difficulty, if in a less degree, as the arable farmer. If they were more strongly organized, the bargaining might have ended differently.