PRICE OF BREAD
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.
Sir — As landowners are constantly inveighed against as being the sole instruments of enhancing the price of bread, will you allow me, through your columns, to invite such of your readers as are millers to explain the following disproportions in the undermentioned towns : —
| Basingstoke | Wheat 56s. to 63s. | Bread 1s. 4d. per gal. |
| Petersfield | Wheat 50s. to 62s. | Bread 1s. 3d. per gal. |
| Newbury | Wheat 40s. to 63s. | Bread 1s. 2d. to 1s. 4d. per gal. |
| Winchester | Flour 40s. per sack | Bread 1s. 3d. per gal. |
| Southampton | Flour 40s. per sack | Bread 1s. 2d. per gal. |
| Devizes | Flour 47s. per sack | Bread 1s. 1d. per gal. |
Upon principles of fair trade it is difficult to understand how flour can be 7s. per sack at Devizes, above Winton, and bread be 2d. per gallon under Winton.
Between Winton and Southampton there is an uniformity in the price of flour and a difference of one penny on bread.
If 1s. 1d. per gallon is a fair price for bread where flour is 47s. per sack, 1s. 3d. per gallon must be a monstrous extortion where flour is 40s. per sack ! !
Unless these disproportions are satisfactorily explained, I think the public will decree that the cotton-mill lords of the north and the flour-mill lords of the south require to be watched with equal diligence and caution.— l remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
AGRICOLA.
Christchurch, Hants, Sept. 20.