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In addition to the conservation and proper usage of such

food supplies as we have already got in the country, a great deal of help

can be accomplished by " tapping " fresh supplies of food in all quarters of the world, and proving once more that, though bread may be the most wholesome of foods, man can live without it. We would make it a fixed principle that after a certain date no ship should discharge at our ports which did not bring food up to ten per cent, of its registered carrying capacity, or in certain cases an additional ten per cent. If any one will take the trouble to calculate the tonnage that comes into our ports every weak, he will find that this would victual us automatically.

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