Mr. De la Bèreasked the President of the Board of Trade, what steps are taken by the Food Council when investigating the cost of bread and flour to verify details as to the actual cost price of the various qualities of wheat, that is to say, Manitoba wheat, Argentine wheat, French wheat and other main types?
§ Mr. CrossI understand that for the general purposes of the Food Council it is not necessary, or indeed practicable to investigate details of this character.
Mr. De la Bèreasked the President of the Board of Trade, whether he will obtain and have circulated in the Official Report the chart of calculation, wheat into flour, and the chart of calculation, flour into bread?
§ Mr. CrossI am not aware to what charts my hon. Friend refers. For general purposes, it is usually assumed that a 280-lb. sack of straight run flour is the product of 400 1b. of wheat; and the Food Council's scale of bread prices assumes that 96 4-lb. loaves of bread are manufactured from a sack of flour.