Carrots have become part of the tional diet, Our supplies of fruit home-grown or from other have yet e perienced, i more than 50 I may have been in hat our a ere fore the impor! Britai the carrot is very clear to ering problems con-mins in national diet, Agric ha. e planting of 20,000 ar, I do not Cheese Shortage i be wrong of me not to disclose that 1 am greatly concerned about the shortage of some of these commodities and particularly cheese, n ships are used to take troop:
Mediterranean which former; were used to bring meat to this country. As long as the Mediterrancan campaign is on I see no possibility of our getting those ships bad: or of increasing the meat ration.
"But meat is not our only form of food. We have potatoes, we have vegetables, we have oils and fats, We have so much oil in this country that we can go on for a long time, We have also milk, With those things we can get all the energy food and has at any rate provided a national joke. I have asked for the plant 14,960 acres of anier "As to the mainten cks of pig important ti pt to maintain more cattle in th country than we can successfully feed, I have arranged for importation of all the powdered milk we can get from overseas and we are hold-country powdered mili so that in the event of emergency w will be able to secure a supply of milk to the public, It has also been decided to bring in oranges to this country to the greatest extent of our capacity "—Reuter,
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