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Show WAR BREAD COSTLY TO BRIT1SHJ0VERNMENT Every year the British government pns $'JOOI000,OUO toward tho cost of that nation's war broad. That 1b the principal reason why English bread prices nro lower today to tho consumer than In America, incidentally tho British bread is much poorer than the Aincrlcnn. Great llrltnln linn taken over nil Inline grown grain, bought at an arbitrary arbi-trary price, and all Imported wheat bought In markets of tho world at prevailing pre-vailing prices. This Is turned over to the mills by tho government nt n price that allows tho adulterated war brend loaf of four pounds to sell nt 18 cents. The two pound loaf costs 0 cents, and the one pound loaf sells for 0 cents In milling, however, 14 per cent more Hour Is extrncted from the whent than In America. And there Is a compulsory com-pulsory adulteration of 20 per cent, and an allowable adulteration of 00 per cent. Compared with American brend, the British product Is only ubout OS per ccct. pure nt Its best. In France, under conditions somewhat some-what similar, but with a larger extraction, extrac-tion, the four pound loaf sells for 111 cents. |