FOOD IN BRITAIN
EXCEPTIONAL CROPS
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, October 12.
Partly because of exceptional crops and partly because of the Government's "grow more food" appeal, the London North-Eastern Railway reports record loadings of foodstuffs this year. As an indication of the immensely increased tonnages being dealt with, it is revealed that from a small section of this railway system serving a portion of Lincolnshire 300,000 tons of potatoes were handled during the first eight months of this year, as against 160,000 tons in the previous year, and 40,000 tons of grain, compared with 11,000 tons in 1939. The harvest is not yet completed and huge tonnages have still to be dealt with.
Grain in stacks and potatoes in heaps are being stored on farms in large quantities for future consumption. The task of lifting the enormous acreage of sugar beet has begun and the roots are being conveyed to the factories by trainloads.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1940, Page 6
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