The Pulaskian., 1918-03-01
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FLOUR SUBSTITUTES
 MUST BE BOUGHT
FOOD ADMINISTRATOR ISSUES POSITIVE ORDERS WHICH CON- SuMERS MUST OBSERVE IN
 PULASKI COUNTY.

iiS lOllO8lu6 oIutI WdS lSbuSu Dy Grover T. Owens, Pulaski County Food Administrator:
 Beginning on February 20 the retail merchants of Little Rock and North Little Rock are required to sell an equal amount of flour substitutes with each sale of four. The substitutes are cornmeal, grits, corn starch, hominy, corn flour, barley four, rice flour, po- tato flour, buckwheat flour, soy bean flour, peanut four, rice, oatmeal, roll ed oats, shorts, bran and Irish pota- toes.
 Irish potatoes have been added to the substitutes for flour provided the same are used in accordance with rule of an order recently made by Hamp Williams, federal food admin istrator for Arkansas, which is as fol- lows:
 .'The food administrator for Arkan- sas has ruled that potatoes or rice. when used to take the place of bread, when bread or wheat products will be omitted, will be considered substi- Jute Tn ArkanSaS.
 The order is to be strictly enforced by the merchants, and no consumer will be permitted to purchase flour from any Little Rock or North Little Rock merchant without buying the re- quired percentage of substitutes, re- gardless of the statement made by the consumers relative to the substi- tutes on hand.
 The merchants are authorized to sell four to the country trade only upon affidavit furnished by the pur- chaser to the effect that they have on hand 50 per cent substitutes and promise to use same.
 Any infringement of the above or der upon the part of any merchant is to be immediately reported to the Food Administration, and any one found violating the order will be dealt with promptly, announced Grover T. Owens, food administrator for Pulaski County.
 The following prices for food in Pulaski county have been suggested by the Food Administration commit tee.
 New Prices Announced.
 Beet sugar, $7.95 per 100 pounds to the retailer, and 9 cents per pound to the consumer.
 Cane sugar, S8.30 per 100 pounds to the retailer, and g 1-2 cents a pound to the consumer.
 Flour $1.34 to $1.46 per 24lpound sack to the retailer, and $1.50 to $1.65 per 24-opnd sack to the consumer.
 Creamery meal (best grade), 55 to 57 cents per 10-pound sack to the re- taller, and 65 cents per 1O-pound SACK to the consumer.
 Fancy creamery butter, 51 to 56 cents pound to the retailer, and 55 to 60 cents a pound to the consumer. 1 Renovated butter, AT cents a pound to the retailer and 52 to 55 cents a pound to the consumer
 Oleomargarine, 27 to 32 cents a pound to the retailer and 35 to 4( cents a pound to the consumer.
 Compound lard Gin bulk), "A cents a pound to the retailer, and 28 cents pound to the consumer.
 Fancy Honduras rice, cents 2 pound to the retailer and 12 l.: cents pound to the consumer.
 Blue Rose rice, 2 12 to 8 1-2 cent! a pound to the retailer, and 10 cents pound to the consumer.
 Screenings, cents a pound to tn, retailer, and IS cents pound to ths consumer.
 Navy beans, IA 1-2 cents a pount to the retailer, and IS cents pound to the consumer.
 Pinto beans, g 1-2 cents pound tt the retailer, and 12 1-2 cents a pound to the consumer.
 the retailer, and 20 cents a pound t, the consumer.
 Green and Red Velva syrup in 10 pound tins, 82 cents to the retailer and S1 to the consumer.
 Fancy Louisiana Sugar Cane mo lasses in 10-pound tins, 82 cents to tn, retailer, and S1 to the consumer.
 Corr syrup in 10-ponud tins, 6 cents to the retailer and 75 cents t the consumer.
 Blue Karo syrup in five-pound cans B 1-3 cents to the retailer, and 1; cents to the consumer
 Cream of Wheat, 21 cents pack age to the retailer, and 25 cents | package to the consumer.
 Shredded Wheat, 12 cents a pack age to the retailer, and 15 cents ; package to the consumer.
 Dairy cheese, 31 to 32 cents poun' to the retailer, and 35 to 40 cents 1; nOund to the consumer