New Britain herald., 1917-09-01
SIXTEEN Oz. LOAF
 FOR D|ME,' HOOVER
Food Dictator Does Not Believe
 in 14 0Z. for NiCkle

Washington, Sept 1.-Basing his estimates on the basic price of $2.20 for wheat announced by the President, Herbert Hoover, Food Administrator, said last night that flour used in bak- ing should retail to the consumer in New York City at from $11.75 to $12.75 barrel. depending upon con- ditions experienced by the millers. The aerage price for the last six months, he said, was $15.36.
 A return to the f1ve-cent sixteen ounce loaf of bread. however, MT. Hoover said, could scarcely be ex- pected under the present trade con- ditions He felt that unless there was cooperation between baker. retailer and consumer to eliminate waste in manufacture and delivery, a sixteen ounce loaf probably would retail for 10 cents under the new wheat prices.
 Hope for a sixteen ounce loaf that would sell for cents was held out by tRe Food Administrator, contingent upon cooperation on the part of the public, and he expressed the belief that, under favorable conditions, some of the big bakers might be able to go slightly below that figure.
 Some of the men who had been working on the wheat price schedule have expressed the belief that a 5-cent fourteen-ounce loaf would be possible under the new arrangement. MT. Hoover's estimate of 8 sixteen-ounce loaf for cents would make the price of a fourteen n-once loaf to the con- sumer, cents.
 A campaign for the elimination of fancy rolls and loaves and the estab- lishment of a standard loaf of bread will be taken up by the Food Admins tration in the effort to bring prices down. While the administration has dealers, MT. Hoover believes that lished will soon become effective.
 There will be no effort at present to bring about the manufacture of any thing approaching war bread,". and the prices and conditions MT. Hoover suggested in his statement are for wheat bread. The present range of prices paid for bread was so great, MT. Hoover said. that it was inn possible to place the average price for which the sixteen ounce loaf was being sold. Eight-cent bread, however, is saving.
 HOOVer'S Statement.
 Here is MT. Hoover's statement:
 The average retail price of family patent flour in New York from April to August, inclusive, this year, has been s15.36 per barrel Upon tho declared fair price for wheat the New York price of family patent flour in the larger packages should be at be-, tween $11.75 and s12.75 per barrel, depending on the milling yield of wheat this year and the price of mill feed. The price of bakers patent four to small bakers and retailers in l ute packing. allowing for the mill ] ers' and jobbers' costs and profits, | should range between $1O.35 and l k11.25 per barrel, depending on the l milling yield of wheat and the price | of mill feeds.
 At the present time contracts are | being made in New York for whole 'ale lots of bakers patent in jute ,a gs at about $10.65 per barrel to obbers, whose present basis of dis would make the flour cost he small baker and retailer about Ill per barrel
 ,e 10 cents more per barrel, while I ents less. in New Orleans 25 cents ess, in Chicago 35 cents less, in Min leapolis 50 cents less. and in Kansas ,ity 60 cents less per barrel.
 "At the prospective prices for flour is improbable that a full 16-ounce ] oaf can be delivered to the consumer or less than 10 cents per loaf. un- ess the consumer will join with the 'akers and retailers. and consumers an be secured to effect a standard zed loaf and if wasteful practices l which have grown up out of compe- itive conditions can be eliminated l nd a reduction in delivery and credit rought about Some bakers of a arge volume and with special de- very conditions may even be able 0 increase this saving somewhat.
 ''The baking of large loaves under on- delivery and cash sales condi- ions in large sections of Europe 7ould permit the sale at the bakery GOT of a 16-ounce loaf from this price of flour, for cents The higher labor, fuel costs, and nethods of distribution through re- ailers, delivery. credit, and other 1 xpensive rehandling systems in the ;fol Cfoto ]