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milk-selling dairy farmers, and the result 

 was that calves sired by such bulls were 

 difficult to dispose of, or were quite unfit for 

 rearing." 



It is the practice of milk-selling farmers 

 to sell their calves soon after they are born, 

 at the nearest market. If we nationalised 

 milk production, it is evident that we should 

 keep all calves fit for rearing for two or 

 three weeks, until they could stand long 

 journeys with impunity on their way to rearing 

 farms. 



Much milk under private enterprise is wasted 

 every year, especially in the summer, owing to 

 the difficulties of transport, the absence of 

 cooling stations, clean churns, and efficient 

 organisation. Much milk is returned as sour, 

 and some is thrown to the pigs. New milk, 

 which should be reserved for human consump- 

 tion, is often used for fattening and rearing 

 calves (when these after three or four weeks 

 might very well be reared on cream equivalents). 

 A properly organised system of collection and 

 delivery, and the establishment of cooling 

 stations where water is laid on, would save us 

 nationally many thousands of gallons of milk. 

 Moreover, there is many a remote, fertile 

 valley in this country, divided by undergrazed 

 hills, which might be exploited for milk pro- 

 duction had we a national scheme of production, 

 transport, and marketing. The recently issued 



