BRITISH MILK INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1938, Page 12

BRITISH MILK INDUSTRY

(From "The Post's" Representative.) - LONDON,-June-11. A salient feature of the annual meeting of the Milk Marketing Board was the light thrown on the enormous part that milk-production plays in agriculture and the number of individuals dependent on it. No fewer than 89,105 farmers have wholesale contracts and 63,445 hold producer-retailer licences, a total of 152,550. There are approximately 22,000 producer-retailers, however, who have wholesale contracts also, so that some $30,000 fanners in England and Wales are; concerned with the production and sale of milk. The total volume of milk sold was 1011.249,539 gallons—a decrease of 632,573 gallons over the previous year. Actually the sum realised from the sale of milk under wholesale contracts was £47,321,049, an increase of £3,138,000. The average.poo] price was 12.77 d per gallon, the highest yet paid.under the scheme, and an increase of 0.86 d per gallon. The remainder was due to the ■slightly better price per gallon in certain months, which the board was able to secure from the buyers. The average price per gallon for liquid milk this year was 15 58d-last year itwas 15 25d; for manufacturing milk, o : 3od— last year, 5.39 d. The total cost of transporting milk amounted to not less "■SeiSSKS inland Wales are ago.