Description | Continued from p37. Quotes from various letters put before the committee, including a letter from Dr Crowe on the progress of his cheese making, one from Sir Frederic Nathan on an idea submitted by the British Women's Patriotic League proposing carragheen or Irish Moss as a food, a letter from the Jamaica Agricultural Society on bananas, a letter on the milling standard. Gives the committee's decision not to back a proposal from J W Jenkins to increase malted cereal as a substitute for potatoes -- considers a letter about a plant called Manioc [cassava root] from Madagascar, and suggests that it be used for alcohol production. p42-44. |