§ Major Carverasked the Minister of Agriculture whether, with a view of absorbing the present surplus of liquid milk, he will arrange for consideration to be given to a scheme under which the Milk Marketing Board will guarantee such a price to farmers who produce butter which they have made on their own farms from milk produced by their own cows as will provide real encouragement to farmers to engage in the production of butter; and what steps are being taken at the present time by the board to promote the sale in this country of butter made on British farms?
§ Mr. W. S. MorrisonI am willing to consider any such scheme, but I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend will not expect me to agree in advance that a scheme of this nature would necessarily be in the best interests of the milk industry at the present time. As to the last part of the question, the Milk Marketing Board are not at present taking any steps to promote the sale of farmhouse butter.