* * At a meeting of the Metropolitan Dairymen's Society
on Thursday, September 18th, the retail price of milk for London during the winter was fixed at 71d—the same price as last year. " Winter " for this purpose is to begin on October lst. We cannot hesitate to say that this price for an essential commodity is much too high. The Linlithgow Committee was of that opinion, and suggested means by which the price could be reduced. The result of the perennial disputes between the Federa- tion of Milk Distributors and the Farmers' Union is that the public suffers. From the point of view of the con- sumer the Federation of Milk Distributors is represented by the great milk combine of United Dairies, Ltd. This combine is no doubt an efficient organization, and it says, with a certain truth, that the public owe to it a guaranteed and punctual supply and also a cleanly handling of the milk. But this is no excuse at all for a price which is quite unnecessarily high in the case of a thing essential to the national health.
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