Description:Amongst the pamphlets relating to England's food supply during war is a cutting ‘reprinted from the Sussex Daily News’ dated Monday March 2nd 1903 entitled ‘Our Food Supply in Time of War’. The reprint is a letter from Charles Rintoul which criticises the cost of building grananries, and instead promotes home-grown wheat. Rintoul argues that:
‘By the use of home-grown wheat native industry and agriculture would be encouraged’. He concludes ‘It is quite a common thing for farmers to grow wheat for seedsmen under contract, and they would as readily grow it for the Government if asked to do so. If this system was adopted, no further risk of starvation prices in time of war would be incurred.’