COUNTRY LIFE
WHAT a number of little effects ensue from changes set afoot by Central planners, a small, perhaps petty, example will illustrate. It concerns the housekeeper. A maximum price is fixed for gooseberries, which muse be sold by weight. The professional grower, therefore, and most naturally, refuses to sell his berries till they attain full size. The domestic caterer, on the other hand, wishing to bottle gooseberries against the arrival of the hungrier months, seeks small, unripened goosberries which alone endure satisfactorily the bottling process. She is quite unable to buy them, and so a useful and pleasing resource of winter food is cut off by the apparently kindly act of fixing a maximum price. Similar results are common in many directions.
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