Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-09-02
Fifty-fifty Rule is Revoked
and Eighty Per Cent
Wheat Flour May
be Bought.
4 NEW FLOURs SOON
New Ones Ready Mixed
With Twenty Per Cent
of Substitutes.

is revoked and people may now buy
so per cent wheat and 20 per cent of
substitutes. Four new ready-miXed
flours are also soon to appear on the
market with which no substitutes need
be sold for the new fiours will be al
ready mixed in the 5000 basis. New
rules governing the sale of flour have
been sent broadcast over the state and
dealers are required to post them
in their places of business. The peo-
pie will do well to familiarize them
selves with these rules.
New Wheat Flour Rules,
These rules are as follows:
Rule Retailers dealing in wheat
-four must carry in stock one or all
Of the following substitutes: barley
flour, corn meal, corn -four. These
three are the official substitutes
which may be sold with standard
wheat -four and they are the only
ones which the dealer is obliged to
the dealer may require the consumer
to purchase with standard wheat flour.
Present stocks of mixed fOurs con-
tanning 20 per cent or more substitutes
may be distributed and sold without
substitutes until exhausted. II they
contain less than 20 per cent substi-
tutes full pound of substitutes must
be sold with each four pounds of such
mixed flours.
Rule I'm selling standard wheat
flour the retailer must sell one pound
of substitutes with every four pounds
of wheat flour.
Rule 3.-The dealer in selling wheat
flour must deliver the substitutes with
the wheat flour. No exception will be
made to this rule.
Rule 4.-The limits of 241a pounds
in town and 40 pounds in the country
have been withdrawn. The ;lealer
may sell to the consumer such quanti
ties of wheat flour as the consumer
desires to purchase. provided lie OBJ
the 1920 rule. or the one pound
to four pound rule, in making such
sales.
Rule 5.-If dealers desire to supply
the demand of the consumers they
may sell as substitutes in ratio of
one pound substitutes to four pounds
of wheat flour the following additional
substitutes, but such sales can only
be made at the request of the consum-
er: kaffir flour, rice flour, peanut
flour, sweet potato flour, buckwheat
flour, feterita flour, milo flour, bean
-four, potato -four, and meal of the
above basic cereals.
Dealers may also sell rye flour as
a substitute in the ratio of two pounds
of rye flour with three pounds of
wheat -four.
Pancake flours are not included in
the 5000 rule and may not be sold as
All whole cereals and all breakfast
foods, Oat meal, or rolled oats, and
rice are eliminated as substitutes.
NOTE: As means of conservation
consumers are requested not to pur-
chase corn meal as substitute when
such corn meal is to be used for corn
bread. Corn meal should be purchas-
1,l a 6 ~ cuhStitutn nn1y for tho ,,urnocn
of baking in combination with wheat
flour. This is not rule. but request
for patriotic cooperation with the
government on the part of the con-
sumer.
-Four New FlOurs.
Rule G.-Four mixed flours will
shortly appear on the market under
the title Victory Mixed Flours."
These fiours may be sold without sub
stitutes and must be manufactured us
follows:
Wheat flour and barley flour
mixed in the percentage of so to
20.
Wheat flour and corn Hour mix
ed in the percentage of so to 20.
Wheat flour. corn flour and bar
ley flour mixed i'll percentage of
so per cent wheat flour, 10 per
cent corn flour and 10 per cent
barley flour.
Wheat flour and rye flour mixed
i'm the percentage Of 60 to 40 per
cent.
All such mixed flours are to be label
III Victory Mixed Flour and on the
abel is to appear the ingredients in
The order of their proportion in the
Hour.
Rule Tn selling mixed tlours the
lealer is not permitted to sell such
mixed -four at higher price than that
Of standard wheat flour.
Rule S.-Graham, entire wheat or
whole wheat flour must contain 80 per