?HE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER AND THE BREAD RATION.
[To ran EDITIM or roe " SPECTATOR.")
fie,—]n reference to the new food rations, do you think the town dweller properly appreciates the peculiar circumstances which necessitate an unusually large amount of bread being allotted to the agricultural lobourer ? The latter lives almost entirely on bread, and I find, on inquiry, that it is no uncommon thing for a man to take half-a-loaf out with him for his dinner; indeed, he mold not otherwise do the strenuous work that he does. It is melees asking him to use substitutes (unless they can be bought From the baker). He often has to be out in the fields all day and he naturally takes the handiest form of food—bread. In these efts eumstances the present 'ration is not really adequate, and to my mind it would seem almost better to transfer some of the seden- tary worker's ration, for the latter has ampler opportunities of
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