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This is a melancholy tale ; for the producer is

punished and the consumer is given a less delectable fare. Fruit preparations, and skimmed milk in tins are both examples, More than this : it is within my knowledge that some extra efforts are being made in more than one foreign country to ensure the capture of the English market—in many different forms of food. Not least in " pig products" of which the Danes are rapidly increasing their already immense output. All over the world--excepl on English farms—London is regarded as the ideal market—and the reason why London is often the very worst market for English produce and the best for foreign has never been fully investigated in detail

by the economists. • * * *