10 FEBRUARY 1917, Page 3

We have noted the basis on which we are voluntarily

to ration our- wive& It is ale) explained that meat, which includes all flesh of living things, is to be weighed when uncooked, and that the bone and fat are to be included in the 2} lb. That seems to us rather en un reasonable proposition. People who want to get round the volun. terry ration will, as far as possible, buy boneless joints, and this may result in great waste. Nobody will eat necks of mutton unless cut from the bone I But if that is done, bones which might have made skeellent 'soup would leo- thrown away. That does not sound much like the maximum conservation of food.