is having its effect upon the price of Dread, which has already gone up" to sixpence a quartern loaf. Mr. Williams, who earlier in ths year wrote a series of articles in the New Review The Foreigner in the Farmyard" dealt very ably with the when question and maintained that if we chose we could grow vastly more wheat than we do, and be toa much greater extent independent of foreign markets. In times of war this would certainly be a great boon and even as things now are it Seems that we may need supplies from many countries in order to make up the quantity required to carry us on till next harvest. The question seems to be where it is to come from—all over the world the harvest is said to be lighter than it has been for years. It is calculated that. the European. countries together with China the Brazils and the West Indies will require an import of 57,000,000 quarters, a quantity unprecedented in. the history of the wheat trade and as the available total is only 43,000,000 there is a deficiency of twelve or thirteen millions certainly mean dear bread for only" i between demand and supply, which will England but elsewhere. The poor will Aoubtless feel the pinch during the corsing winter as to them bread is undoubtedly the staff of life more than to the wealthier classes who are beginning to call it the "staff of death," starchy foods being condemneail in these ettlightened days of raw steaks and hot water. It is to be hoped that things are not going to be so bad as is feared as dear bread seems to bring endless other ills in its train—that, poverty breeds disenso and disease strife has long eon recognised.
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