Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-01
Retail Sale of Standard Wheat Flour

The new regulations supersede the $3.50
rule. The retail dealer selling standard wheat
-four is required to carry in stock either bar
ley -four, corn meal or corn flour, and with
every sale of wheat -four must sell a COM
bination of some one or more OF these In the
proportion Of one pound substitute to each
four pounds of wheat -four. No dealer may
force any other substitutes in combination
upon the consumer, and these substitutes
must conform to the standard fixed by the
United States Food Administration.
There are some localities where other sub
stitutes are available and which retailers
may wish to carry in order to meet this
situation. The following fours may also be
sold in such combination in lieu Of the above
flours if the consumer so demands at the
ratio of one pound to each four pounds wheat
flour: kafir -four, milo -four, feterita -four
and meals rice -four oat -four, peanut -four,
bean flour, potato -four, sweet potato flour,
and buckwheat -four.
Pure rye flour or meal may be sold as a
substitute, but must be sold in proportion OF
at least two pounds of rye with three pounds
wheat -four.
The foregoing rules apply to all custom ana
exchange transactions as well as sales OF
-four to farmers, unless modified by special
announcement of the Federal Food Admins
traitor Of the State where the mill is located,
acting with the approval Of the Zone Com
mittee.
Bakers Regulations
In compliance with the general situation
above, the following alterations are made in
rules and regulations governing the baking
trade:
Rule La. The consumption of wheat flour
in bakery products not to exceed 70 per cent
Of the 1917 consumption Is hereby resclnded.
Rule "a. Wheat -four substitutes for bakers
remain as heretofore with the exception Oh
rye. which will be a substitute when used
upon a basis of not less than 40 per cent,
which is two pounds OF rye Hour to every
three pounds of standard wheat flour. When
rye is used in this proportion, or greater
proportion. no other substitutes are required.
If less than this proportion OF rye flour Is
used the difference between such amount
used and 40 per cent must be made up OF
other substitutes.
Rule Ga. Bakers will be required to use
one pound Of substitutes to each four pounds
of wheat -four in all bakery products, IN
Guiding bread, except Glass Sa crackers, In
which only 10 per cent substitutes other than
rye are required. The use of the name VIC
tory" will be allowed in all products contain
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Revisions of Previous Rules
The preyious rules limiting licenses, mill
ers, wholesalers, and retailers and bakers TO
thirty days supply Of -four will be changed
to permit sixty days supply
The rules limiting sales by retailers OF
wheat -four to one-eighth of barrel in cities
and quarter barrel in sparsely settled dis
tricts are rescinded.
The rule limiting the sale of -four by mill
ers to wholesalers, or wholesalers to retailers,
in combination with substitutes or certif-
Gates therefor, and the rules restricting the
sale to 70 per cent Of previous sales are re-
scinded.
Manufacturers OF alimentary pastes and
wheat breakfast foods are limited to their
normal consumption Of wheat or wheat Hour
with the understanding that they are not TO
unduly expand their ordinary consumption OF
wheat.
Rules prohibiting the starting OF new
plants ready for operation prior to July !,
1918, are reseinded.
Where millers sell directly to consumers
they shall obey same regulations as retall
dealers.