Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1895 — Great Bread Eaters. [ARTICLE]

Great Bread Eaters.

“Bread is one article of food that is cheaper in England and Scotland than in this country, ” said Mr. John Stephenson, of Glasgow, Scotland. Mr. Stephenson and a brother conduct bakery establishments in Glasgow ahd London, the largest, perhaps, in the world, certainly the largest in Europe. “The people on our side,” he continued, “eat more bread than do the citizens of America, and not so much meat or vegetables, which are dearest in Great Britain than in this country. We make two-pound loaves of ‘ square form, the weight of which must be stamped on each loaf, and the law against lightweight bread is very rigid. Every week we consume 8,500 barrels of flour, the biggest part of which comes from the United States. Of late we have been getting a good deal of Argentine wheat, and a little from Australia. About the best w r heat in the world is grown in Hungary, but of that there is no great quantity imported into England.