The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-26
REVISED RULES
FOR FOOD USERS
FOOD administrators GOES OVER
ENTIRE LIST.

ATLANTA, Ga, June 25.-The fol
lowing comprehensive digest Of appli
caticn of the food regulations to home
life has been prepared by DR.. Andrew
NJ. Soule. federal food administrator;
Rules For Househoders
All kinds of food, especially wheat
meats, fats, and sugar should be econ
omically used.
No food shall be boarded. boarding
is the holding, contracting. or arrang-
ing for food by any person in excess
CT his reasonable requirements for
use or consumption by himself and
dependents for reasonable time,
| This does not refer to stocks Of home
grown vegetables and home canned
| or preserved fruits.
All hOuseholders who can entirely
| eliminate the use of wheat until the
next Harvest about September LIST
should do so.
Householders who are obliged to
use wheat should not use more than
total Of 1 u pounds of wheat flour
or prepared wheat, in any form, per
person per week, including the wheat
flour in Victory Bread, and including
the wheat flour or prepared wheat in
crackers, pastry, macaroni, breakfast
! and other foods
Victory Bread, is 0reau manufac-
| tured by Bakers under the rules of the
! United States Food Administration.
In estimating fl,br consumption / "a
pounds CT Victory Bread may be CON
sidered equal to 1 pound of wheat
| flour.
In buying wheat c:our an equal
weight of other cereals as substitutes
for wheat flour must be bought for
pound. This is the $3.50 Rule In buy
ing mixed flours, the substitutes may
| be counted so that smaller
proportion of the substitutes may
| be bought with these flours than with
wheat flour In buying graham and
whole wheat flours, containing not
less than 95 percent of the entire
wheaD G-1O pounds of substitutes
shall be purchased with every pound
Of such flours.
] Wheat flour substitutes are hominy,
| core grits cornmeal, corn flour, edi-
bic corn starch, barley flour, rolled
oats, oatmeal, rice, rice flour, buck
| wheat flour, potato flour, sweet potato
| flour, sOya bean flour and feterita
flour and meals.
Householders in towns ana cities
may not buy more than rs of bar
rel of flour or 2 pounds of sugar at
ans one time. HousehoIdcrs in the
country may not buy more than IA Of
barrel Of flour or pounds of sugar
at any enc time. In no event shall any
purchases have more than 80 days
supply of either on hand.
Householders should not use more
than 2 IL pounds Of sugar per person
per week
IN addition to the above, however,
sugar may be used for home canning,
and viii be available in limited quaint
ty to the householder for that purpose
upon his signing a certificate that such
sugar is desired and will be used only
for that purpose
No wheat flour, or prepared wheat
in any form should be used for any
purpose other than human conaump-
tion. No wheat fit for human consump-
ton should be used fer other pur-
poses.
Meats Of all kinds and poultry, and
mere particularly beef, should be most
economically used. eliminating all
waste. Purchases Of these products
should be restricted and the quantity
prepared for each meal reduced Con
sumption Of all meats, including poul-
Try should be reduced as nearly as
possible to 2 pounds per week per
person over four years o. age, except
beef, which should be restricted to
l IL pounds per week per person.
Fresh milk and milk in eyaporated