FRESH FOOD AND THE FARMER.
Whatever view may be held of this half mystic philosophy, it is quite certain that fresh food is better than stale, home- grown better than imported ; and this verdict applies to flour and bread as well as to vegetables or eggs. For this reason we may accept with real satisfaction a scheme now well on the way to fulfilment, a co-operation between health reformers and the British producer. Arrangements arc being made whereby London shall acquire control of the wheat Produced within a certain area in the eastern counties. The complete output of wholemeal flour from particular mills would be taken direct to expert bakeries of the new bread is London, which would ensure that those loaves were made of a good proportion of fresh, not much travelled or long pre- served, flow. After a great deal of practical and scientific research into the making of a loaf that shall have a maximum of palatable and health-giving qualities, a formula has been reached, with wholemeal English flour as its basis. It may wall come to pass that by this route a standard price for English wheat, or at any rate a price fixed a year or two ahead, 1,,,V ultimately be assured to the great benefit of the producer. that the consumer will be benefited when he consumes fresh
and British food in preference to stale and imported goes without _argument.
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