Land Problems and National Welfare 



the yield of milk per cow could be doubled 

 throughout the country if careful records were 

 kept of each cow's yield, if heifers from the 

 heavy yielders only were put into the herd, and 

 if pedigree bulls of milking strain were used. 

 In other words, milk-control centres, such as 

 exist in Denmark and in the south of Scotland, 

 should be created all over the country. 



Little attention has been paid to the scientific 

 feeding of cows (or of beasts either) ; and the 

 enormous difference in the cost of foodstuff per 

 gallon of milk is shown in the September (1907) 

 number of the Journal of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture. It seems hardly possible that one farmer 

 should produce milk for 2jd. per gallon, while a 

 neighbouring farmer (and a successful man too) 

 spends an amount on foodstuff for his cows which 

 works out at yd. per gallon. 



In France farmers can afford to sell milk for 

 4Jd. per gallon, in Denmark for 4d. and 5d. 

 There would be an unlimited market in England 

 for milk at such prices. 



Our poorer classes, even in the country, 

 hardly know what milk is ; there are large dis- 

 tricts where labourers' families can rarely get 

 even skimmed milk. And the price, I2d. to i6d. 

 per gallon for fresh milk, prevents a large class 

 of the population from using anything like an 

 adequate amount. 



The dairy farmer who sells his milk to the 

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