Country Life
COUNTRY FOOD.
Few of the scores of useful leaflets issued by the Oxford agricultural economists have been more illuminating than the latest, though it is almost wholly statistical. It deals prin- cipally with our imports of food and the new English industry —on any scale—of canning. Almost all food imports increased last year, some of them by a scarcely credible amount : Potatoes by 186.9 per cent. Bacon by 21.2 „ Cheese by 18.3 Mutton and lamb by 11.4 Wheat and flour by 10.9 These increases appear fantastic when we consider how huge the imports of these standard foods already were. The potato import is probably accidental, but all the rest appear to be symptomatic of an increasing dependence on food from overseas. Can any nation endure such a food bill ? Has the tide turned ? Oxford probably will answer such general questions. * * * *
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