Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-04
WHEAT FLOUR BAN
PARTLY RAISED IN
NEW FOOD ORDER
Housewife Need Only Pur-
chase One Pound of Sub
Stitute to Four of Wheat
VICTORY FLOUR COMING
First Carload of Mixed Flours
Is on Its Way to
City

Shipment of the new "S0-20
flour with its 80 per cent. wheat
flour and 20 per cent. substi-
tutcS, will soon be received in
Harrisburg. One carload, con-
tanning approximately 800 bar
rclS, is on its way to the city and
is expected at almost any time
by the Whitman. Schwarz Com
pany to whom il is consigned.
Official Interpretation of the new
wheat conservation regulations as
they affect the wholesaler, retailer
and consumer were made public this
morning by Donald Mccormick,
Dauphin county food administrators.
Regulations governing bakers hotels,
restaurants and clubs, exchange mill
ing and other businesses will be is
sued later.
The regulations governing retail
dealers are as follows:
THE tifty-ffty regulation has been
rescinded.
Retail dealers are now required
to sell one pound of substitutes with
each four pounds of wheat flour.
New Substitutes
THE substitutes which the retailer
is now permitted to sell to the con-
sumner along with StfalSnl Wned'
flour are as follows:
Corn flour, corn meal, barley
-four, rice flour, potato flour, sweet
potato flour, buckwheat -four, oat
-four peanut Hour, bean TOUT, milo
flour, 'kaffir and feterita flours and
meals.
Pure rye flour or meal may also
be sold as a substitute, but only in
the proportion of at least two pounds
of rye with three pounds of wheat
flour.
THE retail dealer selling standard
wheat flour is required to carry in
stock either barley flour. corn meal
or corn -four and he is not permitted
to require that customer shall take
any other substitutes with wheat
flour than one of these three; but
the customer may require, instead OF
these three, any other of the permit
ted substitutes which the dealer has
in stock.
The retail dealer is no longer re-
quired to purchase substitutes oil
give certificate in connection with his
purchases of.wheat flour.
Victory Mixed Flours' may be
sold by the dealer without substi-
tutes.
The quantity restrictions on the
sales of wheat flour by retail dealers
to private consumers have been re-
moved, but the customer is limited
in his purchases to not more than g
60-days' supply.
1T is desired to insure a supply
of ready-miXed fiours on the market
and to have millers and dealers o.
all kinds encourage the use and sale
of this flour, so that the country may
be on a mixed flour basis without
the necessity of retailers making
combination sales of flour and sub
stitutes.
mo mixed flour shall be made oil
manufactured except of the ingredi
ents and in the exact proportions
prescribed below:
MIXED wheat and barley f1oul
shall contain the proportion of foul
pounds of wheat flour to one pound
of barley flour.
s"Mixed wheat and corn -four shall
contain the proportion of four pounds
of wheat flour to one pound of corr
flour.
MIXED wheat, barley and corr
flour shall contain the proportion o.
eight pounds of wheat flour to one
pound of barley and one pound o.
corn flour.
Mixed wheat and rye -four shall
contain the proportion of three
pounds of wheat -four to not less
than two pounds of rye -four.
whole wheat, entire wheat ol
Graham flour or meal shall contain
at least 95 per cent. of the wheat
| berry.
"All such mixed flours, made in ac.
cordance with the foregoing regula.
tions, must be labeled Victory Mixed
Flour and the label must state the
ingredients and their proportion.
The flour so mixed must be mill
ed in accordance with the standard
of the United States food administra.
ton.
"All of the above Victory Moxed
Flours may be sold without accom-
panying substitutes, but at no greater
price from the miller, wholesaler or
retail dealer than in the case OF
standard wheat flour.
Pancake and self-raising fourS
containing substitutes may be sold
without substitutes if containing 20
per cent. or more substitutes than
rye.
"All manufacturers of Victory
Mixed Flour must take out inter
nal revenue license and pay special
internal revenue tax as heretofore.
Graham flour and whole wheat
flour may be served without substi-