31 JULY 1941, Page 13

THE. JOURNEYINGS OF EGGS

ut,--Mr. Bates in " Country Life " is right. Our rationed eggs now e from Maidstone, and behind Maidstone from America. Heath- d is the leading market for East Sussex poultry. I conjecture the nod Ministry's idea to be as follows. Townsmen are five-sixths the population and should have five-sixths of the British eggs, trymen to have the remaining one-sixth and to make up with ported eggs. The transport and the wastage must be horribly pensive. The idea seems to be equality run mad. In other spheres townsman has advantages over the countryman. But the latter