Lord. Devonport as Food Controller has made some useful new
orders. Millers are to extract another 5 per cent. of flour from wheat, making 81 per cent. in all, or may add flour from other grain to make up the required percentage. Game-birds arc not to be fed on grain, so that the pheasants will have to shift for them- selves. A maximum retail price of 3d. an ounce for chocolates and 2d. an ounce for other sweets has been fixed. The sugar to be used in making sweets or chocolates is cut down to half the amount used in 1915 ; sugar or chocolate-coated cakes are banned ; and no winter milk or condensed milk is to be used for the manu- facture of chocolate. Those, however, aro small matters compared with the prohibition of the use of immense quantities of grain and sugar in brewing, for which we are still waiting.
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