Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-03-08
SACRIFICE Fo0D OR BLOOD.

ealize the gravity of the situa-
ion, that the object of the
Wheat Conservation Rules and
is TO DISCOUR-t
AGE THE USE OF WHEAT
FLOUR BY MAKING IT DIFF
FICULT TO OBTAIN, in order
that our Allies may not suffer
and the burden of the
war fall and consequence upon
The less the sacrifice
made in the use of food by those
who stay at home the greater
the sacrifice we shall be forced
to make in the blood of men sent
to the front. To effect the neces-
sary saving in -four, we are COM
PEELED to use the substitutes
named in the official list, and the
selfish and unpatriotic citizen
must be prevented from hoard
ing, or purchasing more than the
reasonable supplies.
EXCEPTIONS TO RULES TO MEET
LOCAL EMERGENCIES.
It has been proved inexpedient
to make local exceptions to gen.
eral rules in order to meet emer-
gencies caused by a shortage of
wheat -four substitutes There
fore, ON AND AFTFR MARCH
1, 1918, THE FOOD CONSER-
WALTON RULES AND REGU.
LATIONS will be uniform
throughout Virginia, and the
provisions set forth in last weeks
issue of this paper, except as
modified herein or by subsequent
rulings. will be applicable alike
to all points within the State.
LIMITED USE OF POTATOES AS
WHEAT FLOUR SUBSTITUTES.
1t appearing that in Virginia
the supply Of wheat flour sub
stitutes named in the official
list, is at present limited, but
that there is all abundant crop
| of potatoes, the temporary use
| Of potatoes is authorized upon
the following limited basis I'm.
der the fifty-ffty rule, one 'tlli. q
of the required wheat -four sub.
stitutes may be potatoes, used il
the proportion of four pounds te
one that is to say, the dealer
may sell wheat flour within the
limits fixed as to quantity t.
the individual consumer, in til,
proportion of one pound of wliea
flour to two thirds pound O
wheat flour substitutes named ii
the official list and one and on,
third pounds of potatoes.
Potatoes should be bought an(
sold by the pound except tina
when put up in standard barrels
boxes or hampers, they may bt
bought and sold in said STANDARD
containers.
BEANS AND PEAS.
Beans and peas should bt
bought and sold by the pound.
EXCHANGE FLOUR.
The ruling which permits q
grower of wheat to hold ex
Change flour in sufficient quaint.
ties for his household use unit
the next harvest is available, is
extended to include the farmers
tenants and farm hands and their
families residing with them.
Custom mills may deliver tc
the farmer all of his share OF
offal, irrespective of the amount
OF exchange -four he is entitled
to hold.
The exchange flour ruling is
applicable only to persons actual
ly engaged ia farming.
VICTORY FLOUR"
M1llers so quoted that they can
do so may manufacture flour con-
tanning twenty-five per cent or
more of other cereals than wheat,
such Hour to be considered as
proportional compliance with the
fifty-fifty regulation in retail
sales. This -four may be con-
sidered Victory Flour" Such
millers must comply with the
mixed flour law of 1898 imposing
United States internal revenue
tax, and this tax can be absorbed
in the milling expense.
LANCE CONSUMERS OF FLOUR
AND SUGAR,
Hotels, restaurants, boarding
houses, schools and other insti-
tutions, whose daily consumption
of flour or sugar is sufficiently
large to justify an exception to
the rule governing individual
consumers, may upon a proper
presentation in writing of the
facts of their respective cases to
the Local Food Administrator,
procure the necessary permit to
Il.