The Government and Agriculture There seems to' be substance in
the reports that the Government have decided upon an agricultural policy. They are credited with the intention of introducing a Marketing Bill which would empower a majority of farmers within a marketing area to establish a selling pool and compel the minority to come into it. Another proposal is to require millers to use a prescribed pro- portion of home-grown wheat. The millers are said to be reconciled to this. Then there is to be a guaranteed price for British wheat, though it is uncertain whether the Govenunent would like to give a direct subsidy to the fanners or to manipulate the value of wheat by controlling imported wheat. If there should be a direct subsidy it would' mean a return to the policy of the Corn Production Act and the Agriculture Act, under which the Government paid the difference between the current price of home-grown wheat and the fixed minimtlfn price.
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