§ MR. BARTLEYI beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the complaints made with regard to the analysis of samples of milk submitted to the Government analysts at Somerset House; and what steps the Department of Agriculture are taking to protect dairy farmers against the injury done to them by the low standard of quality thus officially laid down?
§ * THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. H. GARDNER,) Essex, Saffron WaldenThe matter is not one in regard to which I possess any statutory powers, but I have from time to time brought under the notice of the Local Government Board and the Board of Inland Revenue the representations made to me on the subject. It is with those Departments that the decision in the matter must rest.