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Show A Fair Price For Milk According to Dr. Carel E. Ladd, Dean of the New York fair price for milk is more effective ef-fective than any other one factor fac-tor in keeping peope on the land maintaining the fertility of the 'soil, allowing rural children child-ren to attend high school and college, and in maintaining the general welfare and happiness of the rural village and farm. During the past few years signal progress has been madej in milk marketing methods which have resulted in a fairer price to the farmer. Leaders of the drive to better the dairymen's dairy-men's lot have been the agricultural agri-cultural milk marketing cooperatives. cooper-atives. Strongly intrenched and loyally supported, they have met middlemen and dealers on equitable equi-table terms. And they have assured as-sured the ultimate consumer of a constant supply of sanitary milk products at all times. This, as Dr. Ladd observed, i of the utmost importance to all farmers and to urban America as well, which depends largely on farm purchasing power for the orders which keep our factories fac-tories going and our millions of industrial workers employed. |