HOME-GROWN FRUIT AND SUGAR.
(To THZ EDITOR OF TEL " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I am delighted to see that Mrs. Gilchrist Thompson has drawn attention to this most important subject. Last year I was fortunate in laying in a large supply of sugar in May, when there was no shortage, and the jam made from the prolific fruit crop of our garden has been (and still is) an inestimable boon to the little children, the sick, and the wounded in our local hospital all the winter. But what is to become of this valuable food asset this year ? I am conscientiously putting aside my weekly ration of half a pound of sugar so as to save a little of our fruit, but of course it is "a mere drop in the bucket." Many. of our neigh- boars are in the same difficulty.—Hoping somethings may be done in this way to help the children, and to save their rightful share of sugar from being destroyed for beer, I ain, Sir, ao., A COUNTRY' WOMAN.
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