*. * The Economics of Milk Much more than merely
hygienic considerations are raised by the representations made last week by the People's League of Health to Sir Edward Hilton Young. Milk as produced and sold in this country may or may not be safe from the health point of view. If the purity i)f raw milk cannot be assured, then steps ought to be taken, by pasteurization or otherwise, to eliminate the danger of tuberculosis. That is not as good as equipping the country with tubercle-free herds, but it would mark, at any rate, substantial progress. towards the ideal. If doctors had more confidence in average English milk— this is where other than hygienic considerations, i.e., economic, come in—they would recommend milk-drinking far more widely to their patients, and if Great Britain took to drinking milk on anything like the scale prevalent in America (to some small extent, no doubt, a result of prohibition) a new era of prosperity would open for one of the most important departments of English farming. Given pure milk, its consumption benefits equally the consumer and the farmer, if in different ways. Unfor- tunately the poor always prefer milk from a tin to milk from'a dairy.
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