New Ulm review., 1917-12-26
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FBRIGHT'EN|S B PEOPLE
NOBODY WANTS TO GIVE Up
THEIR DAINTY WHITE
LoAvEs
MILLS FORCED TO PLACE AN
EMBARGO ON AMOUNT
SOLD TO EACH

Illt 1ued TOl palllC among CnelT clients.
and always keep a weather eye open f.r
a rum on their funds but mills are less.
accustomed to the idea of such an oc-
currence. However, what looked like a
stampede took place at the local mills
Monday when farmers decided that they
would have none of the new style -four.
if they could help themselves.
They came in ones, twos, threes,
dozens, twenties, with requests for all the
flour they could haul home. Some
wanted as much as 1900 pounds, and
they had the money to pay for it. For
once," they decided, "the town people
can hold the sack; they can eat black
bread but we will have our white bread"
Federal Order The Cause.
All this excitement was caused by the,
Federal order to mills that on and after
December 26, no more short patents or
other high grade fours should be made.
The Government order stated definitely
that bu. and "a lbs. of wheat might be
used, no more, to produce a barrel Of
-four; that no more than s per cent of the
offal might be thrown out to make lower
grades of flour. In other words, the best
-four any mill may furnish it's customers
will be what is called IS per cent -four.
Short patents used to run between so
and IS per cent. That is, from 15 to 40
per cent of the wheat went into the lower
grades of flour, leaving only the cream
OF the wheat in the snewy patents.
Not Sure Of Results.
Millers are divided in their opinion
as to the resulting loaf. Some say it
will Be quite as thesrate
Loaf, others are not SO sure what. the
consumer" will think Of it, and there
be those whose optimism leads them to
say it will taste even better. None has
the temerity TO claim that N rs. House
wife will approve Of the color Of the loaf
because it certainly will be darker.
Local mills have not yet experimental
in their bakeries to see just what the new
product will be like. They have been
too busy milling all they could before the
new order should go osinto effect. At the
New I'm Roller Mill they were obliged
to run until midnight Christmas eve on
account Of the big run they had during
the day which nearly emptied theif ware
houses. Both big mills. were obliged
early in the day to set limit to the
amount each customer might take away.
Price No Lower.
Asked as to price of the new -four, all
millers agreed that it would not be any
lower, and it might possibly be little bit
higher. This, they said, was due to the
government order that feed prices. must
be very materially lowered. The Food
J Administration has definitely settled
that the price of ton of bran may not
be more than 50 per cent of the cost of
a ton of wheat. Middlings are to be
$500 per ton more than bran. This
means difference of several dollars per
ton in the selling price Of feeds and, as
result, -four prices must stay put, or
at least they cannot go any lower.
The new bread is an experiment for
the present generation, but it IS not
likely that it will be anything very
strange or new.to the older people, many
Of whom are old enuf to recall the bread
Of their youth which was quite different
in appearance from that Of today, but
which then tasted sWeeter by far to
hungry girls and boys than the present
slice does, snowy and dainty as it may
look when it appears on the table.
Mother will have to take considerable
criticism from spoiled sons and daughters,
but maybe we'll all learn after awhile
o be at war means every body must feel
the effects to some extent. At any rate,
ne nillers say, people are going tofbe
more scared than hurt.
CHRISTMAS MAIL HEAVY