OUSTING THE MIDDLEMAN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 3 January 1924, Page 5

OUSTING THE MIDDLEMAN.

NORFOLK PARMERS BECOME .BAKERS.

LONDON, -Nov, 13

The Lin3it"hgow Committee, which has so laboriously been digging out the middleman and .profiteer in Jsome food production^ has stimulated ihe slowmoving English farmer into something like actum. One indication .of this is to be seen in -Norfolk, where tthe farmers are anxious to show the;pu"blic that good bread «an be;made out of English ■wheat withssst any admixture .from the harder Onsffiusri;anU jgher-graiK grown outside Englund. Just where this sort of thing will *nd no one knows. Mr. J. F. Wright, .aouttty secretary .of the "Farmer* 'IJukm, -says that ifarmers knew English .wheatenfhmr was imore nutrition* *han foreign flcaar or .mixed English said ifoneign, and were .about to deraonsfei:aJe :this-±o-the^public. so the Norfolk branch of the 'Nat'ismal Farmer's Union has decided to qpeei a baker's shop in Norwich for the sale of "bread .vnade solely lr<nm English w'heaten It is :.i'so suggested that $»c bra-nek jb'hoiild -establish in Norwich a livestock tgiarket. jk> be controlled by the farmers, fea* -the ' tiie of store cattle and pigs. to -the extension of direct trading by farmers, they were willing to do «ver\'*luin<' i.® prove to the public that farmer* wero KOt profiteers Now that the Government has made the p'un«-e foi- protection, this little experiment will 1* worth watching. It may be ask^d to v/.«at extent the English farmer wants -protection asmnst the farmers of the e^se'is Dominions. We hear of a £2,00<?/X>o subsidy to wheat growers.