1920.] 



Our National Food Supply. 



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can be assured, prolitablc to the cultivator of the soil At the 

 same time the great bulk of the population will have to change 

 its habits with regard to food and meet the higher prices by a 

 great proportional consumption of those articles of food which 

 are essentially the cheapest. That means, in the first place, an 

 increased consumption of bread, potatoes and vegetables 

 instead of meat. Amongst the animal products, milk and 

 milk products are cheaper foods than meat. Pork will have 

 increasingly to replace other meats, and beef, especially the 

 prime beef of which our farmers were so proud, will become 

 an expensive luxury. 



Theoretical Produce from an Acre of Arable Land as compared 

 with the pre-war Consumption of a Unit of the Population 

 of the United Kingdom. 



Paris. 



Items. 



10 



18 



Wheat, ith acre 



offals 

 Milk, I acre 



Potatoes, ^^t\i ac. 

 Vegetables and 



Fruit, ^igth acre 

 Sugar Beet, ^^^th 

 acre 

 Meat, th acre 

 Sundries 



Yield per Day. 



Amount. Calories. 



18 OZ. bread 1,360 



I OZ. bacon 42 



J pint milk 203 



I OZ. butter 200 



J OZ. cheese 64 



1 lb. 250 



2 lb. 240 



4 OZ. sugar 465 



4i OZ- 337 



Pre-war Diet per Day. 

 Amount. Calories. 



( I lb. bread 1,067 



(. I J OZ. cereals 

 ^th OZ. bacon 134 

 J pint milk 194 

 I OZ. butter, 198 

 marg., and lard 



I OZ. cheese 

 I lb. 

 1 lb. 



3J OZ. sugar 

 6 OZ. 



35 

 241 

 114 



409 



461 

 151 



40 



3,161 



3,004 



