10 MARCH 1917, Page 12

HOME-GROWN FRUIT AND SUGAR.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] the Food Controller going to take the responsibility of wasting our home-grown cultivated and wild crops of fruit for want of sugar, as was the case last year? We hear already that rhubarb is unsaleable for want ef sugar to cook with it. It seems incredible folly at one and the same time to be allowing barley and sugar to be destroyed for beer, and to be contemplating wast- ing precious fruit at a time when every ounce of focd is needed. Cannot we women (through the 'Women Organizers) fight against

this criminal waste?—I am, Sir, &c., L. Gthearose Triosirsos. Kippington 'Vicarage, Serenoaks.