26 APRIL 1940, Page 14

- COUNTRY LIFE

Cream or Butter Wise people in the town ordain in their wisdom that countr, products, such as butter, shall not be sold above a certail. price. They do not perhaps know all the minor consequence of such a decree. Small West country producers have switched from butter-churning to the making of Devon or Cornish cream which they sell at a price that brings them a very comfortable profit ; and a rationed public buys with avidity. This delectable product has brought prosperity to many a West country farmer or small-holder in peace-time, and I doubt whether any farming has been more continuously prosperous than among the small farmers of Cornwall. To them the ploughing up of grassland is not a popular revolution.