IMPORTED FLOUR
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—The huge importation of French flour into this country to which Captain Dixey directs your readers' attention is a question which housewives might help to solve by using only home milled flour. It is more than a matter of injustice to the British miller.
Not only have the French and other foreign millers sold us 11,738,527 cwts. of their wheatmeal and flour in twelve months but the foreign farmer has had the benefit of at least 5,000,000 ewts. of wheat-feed produced during the milling of it. This wheat-feed, which used to be called millers' offals, is a valuable food for all livestock ; indeed, it is regarded to-day as the best obtainable for pigs and poultry.
By allowing the foreign miller to dump his flour on us we are thus depriving the British farmer, and especially the breeder of pigs and poultry, of a valuable asset in competing with imported beef, bacon, butter and eggs : of which during 1930 we purchased in all £174,968,789 worth and even a fair pro- portion of this sum spent at home would help to put British agriculture on its feet.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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