Paris, Aug. 29.
The first home problem confront ting M. Herriot's Cabinet is the cost of living, and the first attempt at a solution consists of enforcing the closing of bakeries once a week, regulating the price of flour in conformity with that of wheat, and requiring millers to obtain a larger quantity of flour from a given quantity of grain. All these measures are intended to induce the public to eat, or to waste, less bread. Whether they will have riy real effect, or turn out to be simply doctrinaire experiments of no utility in the face of hard facts, can only be shown by actual experi The millers say that, in view of the poor quality of this year's French wheat; and of most of the Argentine wheat imported, it is impossible to obtain the new proportion of flour without including unusual quantity of residues, the result of which would be' blackish bread. The price-limitation decrees will probably bring down wheat first, but the most likely result will that the farmer, who makes very little profit out of this cereal, will confine his sowings to exceptionally good land, which will produce without much outlay on fertilizers The home area under wheat will thas
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