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manufactured at present, and we have only to con- 

 sider the brewing industry. 



I have found it impossible to make out exactly 

 what quantities of beer were brewed last year and what 

 it was brewed from, so that I have to take as the 

 basis of my argument the beer production of 1916. 

 This has been worked out by a Committee of the 

 Royal Society, and I take my figures from them, so 

 that they may be regarded as unbiased and accurate. 

 In 1916, then, 26 million barrels of beer were pro- 

 duced in the United Kingdom, and the materials 



used were: 



955,000 metric tons of barley. 



57,000 grits. 



120,000 ,, sugar. 



In Table I, beginning on the left with these original 

 materials, two alternative routes are indicated by the 

 two arrows; the one leading finally to A indicates the 

 use of these materials directly as food for man and 

 animals; the other, leading to B, is the route that 

 was actually followed, the materials having been used 

 for brewing. 



TABLE I 



Original Materials. Food for Man. Food for Cattle. 



573,000 tons. -|- 382,000 tons (A). 



Tons. 



Barley ... 955,000 

 Grits ... 57,000 

 Sugar ... 120,000 



1,132,000^ 



57,000 

 120,000 



,000 



<^ ^750,000 ,, 



"^^ f 26.000,000 bar- 1 /t >\ 



{ rels of beer. }+ 28 3>5<>o tons (B). 



Let us first follow the A route, and consider the 

 food value of these materials had they been consumed 

 directly, without first being turned into beer and its 

 by-products. 



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