Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1918 — WAR BREAD COSTLY TO BRITISH GOVERNMENT [ARTICLE]

WAR BREAD COSTLY TO BRITISH GOVERNMENT

Every year the British government pays 1200,000,000 toward the cost of that nation’s war bread. That is the principal reason why English bread prices are lower today to the consumer than in America. Incidentally the British bread is much poorer than the American. Orest Britain has taken over all home grown grain, bought at an arbitrary price, and all Imported wheat bought In markets of the world at prevailing prices. This is turned over to the mills by the government at a price that allows the adulterated war bread loaf of four pounds to sell at 18 cents. The two pound loaf costs 9 cents, and the one pound loaf sells for 5 cents. In milling, however, 14 per cent, more flour is extracted from the wheat than in America. And there is a compulsory adulteration of 20 per cent, and an allowable adulteration of 50 per cent Compared with American bread, the British product Is only about 65 per cent pure at Its best. In France, under conditions somewhat similar, but with a larger extraction, the four pound loaf sells for 16 cents.