The Prince and the Farmers There was sound sense in
the Prince of Wales' address to the farmers at the Bath and West Show at Yeovil last week. Speaking as a farmer, he urged that they must rearrange the selling side of their business by combining together to form larger and stronger units for the disposal of their goods. " The best Derby winner is no match for a Rolls-Royce and the contest is just as unequal when the single farmer meets the big distributing firm in the market." That is profoundly true, as the dairy farmers must know by this time, and as those who rear cattle and pigs and poultry are beginning to find out. Parliament has shown its anxiety to help the farmers, by relieving them of rates on land, by the wheat quota and in other ways. But they cannot prosper in the long run unless they help themselves.
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