SCOTTISH FOOD STAPLES
I think nutrition is very much more important when app.iecl to England than to Scotland,” said Mr R. J. G. Boothby. M.P., speaking j n the House of Commons. “I have had a l ooi tain amount of experience, having represented a Scottish county for 14 I years, and I assert that there is no | malnutrition to speak of among farm [servants, in that part of the world, at any rate. They have bred a magnificent population for generations past, and if there is malnutrition coming it will be because they have abandoned to some extent the good, plain, wholesome. cheap food that they thcmselevs produce. There were the barrel of herrings and the sack of oatmeal and the bowl of milk which they used to get on every farm, enough to keep everybody. and most of these were supplied free. T have averaged four ben-ing a day for years. The result b; for all to see."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 6
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