Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-30
FLOUR REGULATIONS
WILL. De COMPLETELY
CHANGED ON SEPT. |
All Flour Is to Be Put on Basis
of 80 Per Cent Standard
Wheat and 20 Per Cent of
Substitute

Announcement was made Wednesday
that, effective September l, the food ad.
ministration's flour sale and consump-
ton regulations will be completely
changed The $3.50 rule is revised; tn.
Hour permit cards for farmers are aboI.
ished; substitutes 20 oe used in combina-
ton with flour sales are confined to rye
flour, barley flour and corn flour anG
all flour is to be pat on a basis of so
per cent standard wheat and 70 per
cent substitute.
All bakery products are to carry 20
per cent substitutes and home consum-
ers are urged to use the same per
centagc Of substitutes.
Corn meal shall be bought separateIv
from the offset substitutes in the pur-
chase of standard wheat flour
The food administration, according 10
the announcement, wishes to bring into
the market a ready-mixed flour on the
basis of 1920 i'm order that retailers
may make straight sales without the
necessity of combinations. Such flour
is to be labeled Victory Mixed Flour"
The new order requires that all flour
pared on the following basis
Wheat and barley, four pounds of
standard wheat flour to one pound OF
barley flour.
Wheat and corn, four pounds of
standard wheat flour to one pound of
corn flour
Wheat, barley and corn, eight pounds
.Df wheat flour, one pound of barley
flour, one pound of corn flour
Wheat and rye, three pounds of wheat
flour, 2 pounds of rye flour.
The order further provides: "Whol2
wheat, entire wheat, or Graham flour
must contain 95 per cent of the wheat
berry and may be sold without substi,
tutes. All of the above victory mixed
flours may be. sold without substitutes,
but at the greater price than in cases
Of standard wheat flour.
Retail dealers selling standard wheat
flour will be required to carry in stock
barley flour and corn flour. and with
every sale of straight standard wheat
flour must sell in combination some one
Or more of these substitutes on the basis
of one pound of the substitute for each
four pounds of standard wheat flour.
and il is distinctly provided that no
dealer may force any purchaser to take
any other substitute, and all substitutes
handled by the retail trade must con-
form to thu standards fixed by the
United states administration.
Pure rye flour may be sold as a
substitute, but must be sold on the
sis Of two pounds of rye flour for
each three pounds of wheat flour.
THE foregoing regulations apply to
all customs and exchange transactions
as we'll as to sales of flour to farmers.
''In compliance with the general reg
ulations. the following alterations in
the baking regulations are announced:
"Rule IA, which provides that the
of wheat flour shall not
be more than 20 per cent of the con-
sumption of 1917, is hereby rescinded.
Rule "a, covering wheat flour sub
stitutes by bakers. remains i'll force,
except as to rye flour which will be
as a substitute on the basis
of 40 per cent which equals two pounds
of rye to three pounds of wheat flour.
Where rye is used on this basis no
other substitute is required but Where
a less proportion of rye is used, the
difference in the percentage must be
made UP with other substitutes.
Rule ga is amended to read so as
to require bakers to use one pound OF
substitute for each four pounds OF
standard wheat flour in all baking
prOQuCtS, lnCluuiAlS 'olC"N. ,,,
previous rules, limiting MIXERS
wholesalers, retailers, ETC., to thirty
DAVIS supply is hereby amended so as
to permit a sixty-days' supply.
''The regulation limiting lndlvldual
sales to city or town customers to TWEEN
ty-four pounds ana rural customers To
fortv-eiyht pounds, is hereby resclndeo.
''The regulation limiting sales by mlll-
ers to wholesalers, or by wholesalers 10
retailers so as to require the purchase
of equal weight substitutes or the sur
render of certificates, and the turther
rule restricting to a basis of 70 per cent
OF 1917, is hereby rescinded.
"The rule prohibiting the starting up
of plants which were ready for opera
ton on July /, 1918, but not yet operat-
ed at that time, is hereby resc1nded'
"Millers selling directly to consum-
ers shall be governed strictly by ALI
rules and regulations governing retail
dealers"
Announcement was made by the 1ed-
eral food administration office that all
Of the foregoing amendments and modl-
acations in the flour regulations are
effective on and after September l, 1918,
and publication is to be accepted as OIL