Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
FLOUR REGULATIONS
MODIFIED AS THEY
APPLY To FARMERS
AgriCuIturiStS Not Required to
Buy Equal Amount of Wheat
Substitutes Under the New
Order

Modification Of the regulations gov
erning the purchase of wheat flour by
farmers and eliminating to a certain
degree the rule compelling them to pur-
chase an equal amount of wheat substi-
tutes, was announced Saturday night by
DR.. Andrew NJ. Soule. food administra-
tor for Georgia.
Under the original orders as issued
by the food administration. in an ef-
fort to bring about general co-opera-
ton in the plans to reduce the consump-
ton of wheat flour in the United States
il was necessary for every purchaser
Of wheat flour to buy at the same time
an equal amount Of wheat substitutes,
and this ruling. it was found. worked
a decided hardship on farmers who pro-
duced some wheat, but a considerable
quantity of wheat substitutes such as
corn, rice and similar products.
The new ruling issued by DR.. Soule,
on authorization from Herbert Hoover,
national food administrator, allows pro-
ducers of farm crops to purchase wheat
flour on presentation of a properly
signed certificate showing that they
have on hand as much or more of wheat
substitutes.
1t Is the plan of the food administra-
ton to put farmers on their mettle as
far as the production of wheat substi-
tutes is concerned and it is expected
that the production of such crops will
be greatly stimulated by the latest
modification of the original orders
Authorized by Hoover
Following advisory and recommends
tory communication which have passed
over the wires almost continuously dur
ing the past several days between DR..
SouIe and the authorities in Washing
ton, the following authorization was
sent out late Saturday afternoon to
federal food administrators of all states
by Herbert c. Hoover:
"In the matter of farmers having
substitutes on hand: What we
want is to reduce the consumption
of wheat flour to seventy per cent
of normal.
Retailers will soon find their 4.
supply seventy per cent of normal
through restrictions on wholesalers
and miIIers; therefore, 1 suggest
that you institute some device by
which both the farmer and the re-
taller would give some definite as
surance of not purchasing or selling
more than this amount
"As a patriotic duty, millers and
farmers should do everything they
possibly can to reduce the consump-
ton of wheat flour to seventy per
cent of normal
HERBERT C. HOOVER"
Upon this authority, DR.. Soule is
sued to every county administrator in
Georgia instructions on the use of the
following card permit, which is made eff
fective Immediately:
United States Food Administration
Authority for purchase of flour without
wheat substitutes:
a producer of cereals, is
authorized to purchase pounds of
wheat flour without the purchase OF
wheat flour substitutes, upon the sur
render of this card to any merchant,
the producer having satisfactorily
shown that he has on hand as much or
more wheat flour substitutes as the
quantity of flour herein specified, and
having agreed to abide by the rules and
regulations of the United States food
administration.
Good only when countersigned by
the county food administrator or his
agent. ANDREW M. SOULE,
Federal Food Administrator for Geor-
gia.
"Countersigned:
. . . .