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...Before the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association. Inc., in Manhattan, uprose greying Fred H. Sexauer, longtime president of the league (which represents 29,000 New York dairymen). Said he: "Some day city people will learn that as far as milk is concerned, the OPA has been their No. 1 enemy. . . . The present system of price fixing on food products has all the elements of a national scandal and the making of a ghastly tragedy. . . . Subsidies are the tangled net in which a free people become so enmeshed that they become helpless pawns of a dominating centralized Government." Administration talk...
...before, shock-haired Novelist Louis Bromneld, owner of a 1,100-acre Ohio farm, had become so incensed before the dairymen that he tore up his prepared speech, roared: "Since preparing that speech, I have read a vast amount of nonsense about the food crisis. I am tearing mad. . . . They haven't any real farm policy down there in Washington. One word can describe the one big mess they've made: 'Bedlam...
...milk company pressure, which largely brought about regulation in the U.S. (where in 1917 only 5% of the cattle were infected), run into bigger obstacles in Britain. Immediate slaughter of infected animals would dangerously reduce the milk supply, make big demands on public funds for compensation,* bankrupt many dairymen, impair the fertility of Britain's fields by cutting down the manure supply...
Experienced marketing specialists advocate permanent ceilings on manufactured milk products, carefully calculated so as to forestall any tendency of dairymen to cut production and shift to other kinds of farming. After that, the experts say, a rebuilding of milk prices can be undertaken...
Farmers want other solutions: 1) firm Government control so milk cows and heifers cannot be sold for beef; 2) control of farm labor; 3) a feed price ceiling, with a floor for at least a year after the war to allow readjustments on farms; 4) higher prices for dairymen themselves, maybe direct subsidies and bonuses (like Canada's) to encourage production; 5) assurance of getting essential machines and equipment...