14 THE STATE AS FARMER 



across the seas. But to make whole milk 

 succeed in its mission to our youngsters we 

 want it good and we want plenty of it. This 

 involves a surplus — for we cannot ' stock ' 

 it — out of which the lover of good butter is 

 entitled to his share. And if distribution is 

 undertaken on large lines, the price, even of 

 butter, need not be too great. At present 

 a weekly supply, which is of course too infre- 

 quent, of butter from a noted dairy to a 

 small house must generally be obtained by 

 post at a heavy cost. When all dairies are 

 famous in their various counties we shall be 

 able to get the same result from the nearest 

 shop in any street. 



Then come the creams and cheeses of 

 every variety of which I need not now speak, 

 but it may be as well to refer to the question 

 of skim milk. This product is valuable for 

 the feeding of pigs and poultry in the area 

 covered ; and when the whole of Great Britain 

 is considered, we may take it for granted 

 that the chemists will find a great number 

 of uses for the surpluses of the surpluses, 

 so to speak. I am not concerned primarily 

 with this question of the ' waste,' but I 



