The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-05-27
WAR BRfaD' PLANNED
BY new FOOD DIRECTOR
Hoover to Mix Rye and Corn
With Wheat Flour in
United States.
TO USE MORE GRAIN
Percentage Of Milled Wheat
to Be Increased as Food
Economy.
TO USE MORE GRAIN
ev Harry q. Hunt,

War bread" as a measure for con.
serving our wheat supply, is to bring
the war directly to the table of every
American family.
Under plans already worked out. one
of the first food control measures to
be ordered by Herbert G. Hoover. as
director Of food conservation, is ex-
pected to be the milling of a higher
percentage Of flour from each bushel
OF wheat, and the mixing with wheat
flour of certain percentage of rye
flour and corn or potato meal.
In view of the present depleted re-
serves of wheat, and the prospects for
a short wheat crop this year, this order
probably will be made effective within
80 days, or as soon as the grain census
now under way has been completed.
Wheat Values Lost.
American love Of fine white bread
has resulted in such refined processes
Of milling that more than one fourth
OF every bushel of wheat milled here
is lost for bread uses; q per cent goes
dnto bran, shorts and middlings, which
are fed to stock.
Americas breadstuff supply may he
increased one-twelfth, Secretary of
Agriculture Houston says. without
lessening the nutritive value, by mill
ing 81 per cent of the grain into flour
instead of 80. This would give us 49,
900, 900 additional barrels of flour Il
year.
BY mixing 10 to % per cent rye and
corn flour with wheat flour. our vol
ume of bread materials may be fur
Their increased by from 20.0O0.OOO to
50.000.O 900 barrels.
In Hoovers view, food is more nee
essary than arms and munitions and
fighting men. And although some re-
puirements may seem drastic TO
luxury loving Americans, Hoover
knows they are as nothing with the
restrictions imposed in Europe. For
instance:
While the United States is plan.
ming to mill 81 pounds Of flour
from every 100 pounds Of wheat,
Germany requires 81 pounds and
Italy 30 pounds.
While the United States plans
to mix at least part Of its flour
with from 10 to rs per cent rye
and corn flour, Austria requires
flour for bread to consist Of not
over so per cent wheat or rye flour.
Hungary has ordered that so per
cent of cornmeal or % per cent of
potato flour be used in all bread maxi
ing.
France has closed all confectionery
shops on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
and forbids absolutely the sale of new
bread.
Italy forbids use of certain foods on
certain days, restricts consumption of
food in hotels and restaurants, limits
the number of dishes that may be
served, and forbids sale of cakes or
confectionery.
Great Britain has taken over the
handling and distribution of all wheat,
corn. rice and their products. Bread
can only be sold when it is one day
old, no milk or sugar may be used in
making bread, and a bread ration of
four pounds per person per week has
been established.
With Argentina's 1917 wheat crop
only one third of normal, and an en-
barge placed upon it by the govern
ment. and the total worlds yield of
wheat for this year estimated at only
- per cent of last years crop, which
was itself short, the necessity for
boarding the worlds bread supply is
acute
War bread for the United States will
be one answer to the problem.