The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-03

The object OF these new rules Is to
decrease the consumption of flour, the
request from the food administration TO
the ultimate consumers, that is, the
| householders, being that the use Of flour
be reduced 50 per cent of normal and
other cereals and foodstuffs be substi-
tuted to that extent. This Is the reason
for the rules hereinafter stated, that
the retailer must sell substitute cereals,
pound for pound, win flour, and this
should be kept in mind for clear IN
Outstanding of the rules.
These rules are as follows;
SALES BY WHOLESALERS
/. Millers and millers' representatives
carrying flour in stock may deliver to
licensed wholesalers, licensed retailers
and licensed bakers, including restau-
rants holding bakers license, without re-
curing purchase of substitute cereals.
2. Wholesalers carrying stock may de-
liver to licensed retailers and licensed
bakers, including restaurants holding
bakers license. without requiring pur-
chase of substitute cereals.
8. No wholesaler is allowed TO handle
food products included in the list of Ii
censed commodities by the federal food
administration without securing whole
salers' license, and, therefore, no one
can sell under any circumstances to an
unlicensed wholesaler.
T. Millers, millers' representatives,
wholesalers and any other dealers or nan
dlers of flour at wholesale, with every
sale of flour to unlicensed retailers must
sell and deliver an equal quantity, pound
for pound, of legal substitute cereals
(see list below, except under the lot
lowing circumstances only:
(a) The retailer may purchase the SUD
stitute cereals from one wholesaler and
the flour from another, but in this case
he must secure at the time or the pur-
chase of his substitute cereals cerlli-
cate in form as set forth. hereafter ana
must deliver this certificate to the dealer
from whom he buys the flour as author
lty to that dealer to sell and deliver the
flour without simultaneously selling anu
delivering the substitute cereals pound
for pound. This certificate must be Kept
by the wholesaler selling and denVerinS
the flour as his authority for delivering
flour without the equal quantity OF SUD
stitutes, and the records must be kept
clear for inspection by the food admin
istration's auditors. 1t is suggested that
the dealer selling the substitute cereals
without the flour, send the certificate to
the retailer with the dray ticket where
the goods are delivered by dray or truck,
or with the bill of lading or invoice
where delivery is made by freight or ex-
press: or else that this dealer selilnS the
substitutes hold this certificate to be de-
liyered at the order of the retailer to the
dealer from whom flour, which this GER
tificate is to cover, is purchased. NO
substitute cereal certificate over 70 hours
old will be recognized as valid, and Hour
sold against such certificate will be con-
eta ha sold without Dllr
chase of cereal and in violation of the
law; provided, that a certificate mailed
by the retailer to the flour dealer Will
be considered as received from the time
it is mailed, according to the postoIIice
stamp on the envelope. These substitute
cereal certificates to be valid must be
signed by some member of the firm 1ssu-
ing them where the seller is a partner
ship or by some managing official Where
the seller is incorporated. The burden OF
proof as to the genuineness and validity
OF these certificates is on the flour dealer
accepting them, the food administration
placing this upon him in return for grant
ing him the privilege of selling ana de-
livering flour without himself selling ana
delivering substitute cereals at the same
time. The total amount Of flour sold
and delivered by the dealer must not ex-
coed by a single pound the total amount
in pounds of substitute cereals sold ana
delivered by him to the retailer, added
to the total amount in pounds covered
by certificates delivered to him
(b) The retailer may, in lieu of sub
stitute cereal certificates issued by
wholesaler as above provided. deliver
70 primers certificates covered by the rule
set forth hereafter, and said farmers
certificates may be accepted by the
dealer in flour with like force and effect
as certificates referred to in preceding
paragraph; provided, that there Is no
time limit within which these farmers
certificates must be turned in by the re-
taller. The burden of responsibility for
these farmers certificates rests primarily
on the retailer. and the wholesaler can
accept them as genuine. according to
their tenor, unless he has notice Of facts
sufficient to put him on inquiry
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS
s. Hotels, restaurants, boarding
houses and all other public eating
places not holding federal bakers
licenses, which use flour sufficient to
allow purchase by them at Wholesale
will be required to purchase substi-
tute cereals, pound for pound, with the
flour, exactly as the retail dealer and
consumer.
6. The gross maximum profit on
flour allowed WnOleSdieTS Is not over
rs cents per barrel. Only one broker
age and one wholesale profit can be
made on the same flour, and where
more than one broker or wholesaler
handles the flour the brokerage or
wholesale profit must be taken by
only one of them unless they agree
among themselves upon division. Any
dealer who sells more than 4S pounds
of flour to one household or customer
in towns and cities, or more than SO
pounds in rural communities is sell
ing at wholesale and must hold whole
salers' license and exact only the
wholesale profit.
SALES OF FLOUR
/. Equal quantities of legal substi-
tute cereals, pound for pound, must
be sold by the retailer with wheat
flour. The following are legal substi-
tutes: Barley flour. rye flour buck
wheat flour, corn flour, potato flour
rice flour, soybean flour, cotton seed
flour, corn meal, grits. dry corn hon.
my, corn starch, oat meal or rolled
oats, rice and, temporarily, potatoes.
q. Under no circumstances can more
than As pounds of flour be sold to one