Now the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1931 makes avail- able
ample sums for organization in marketing. They have never been used, owing to ignorance, the individualism of farmers and their lop-sided Union. Mr. Prewett believes that if this were used for the formation of a national organization, for a great milk pool or pools, the industry might be ra- tionalized to the benefit of everyone. They would bring their beneficent reformation about by annulling all these false distinctions between milk for manufacture and liquid milk ; and ordain a general flat rate which should benefit all alike independently of their distance from a big town or a main route. Wasteful competition, redundant and over- lapping distributive machinery would be eliminated. Milk would bring more money to the producer and cost less to the consumer. Mr. Prewett's Problems of Milk Distribution (Clarendon Press, Is.) deserves to be a best seller. It contains a nationally constructive idea, cogently set forth and illus- trated with suggestive detail.
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