Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-03-12
LATEST FOOD
REGULATIONS
MERCHANTS MUST NOW SELL
EQUAL AMOUNTS OF WHEAT
FLOUR AND SUBSTITUTES
MADE EFFECTIVE YESTERDAY
State Administrator Has Remedy for
High Prices.

In telegram to County Chairman
C. w. King on Saturday, State Food
Administrator Bicknell, of Boise,
stated that owing to the absolute
necessity of further conservation of
wheat and wheat products in the
United States it is necessary for the
entire country to adopt the fifty fifty
plan, Using only the substitutes of
the original official list.
This means that no merchant may
sell a pound of flour without also
selling with it a pound of an au-
thorized substitute. The substitute
cereals on the official list are as fol-
laws: corn meal, corn starch, corn
flour, hominy, corn gritts, barley
flour, rice flour, oatmeal, rolled oats,
buckwheat flour, potato flour, sweet
potato flour, soya bean flour and
feterite flours and meals.
In a second telegram sent Satur-
day Administrator Bicknell advised
that half of the required amount of
substitutes could be made up with
the purchase of potatoes at the ratio
of four to one. This means that if
one buys a iS pound sack of flour,
they may bry only "a pounds of
cereal substitutes but must buy 90
pounds of potatoes. In this message
beans are added to the authorized
substitutes and it is permissible to
sell beans IN place of corrineal or
the other first named substitutes if
an equal amount of beans rs flour
is purchased
al realize" advised Administrator
Bicknell, "that in some states it will
be difficult to secure the required
substitutes. This means that wheat
and wheat products must only be
sold to the extent that there are
available substitutes.
Use Potatoes and Meat.
The message emphasizes that our
more abundant meats should be sub
stituted for our less abundant bread
stuffs. In this connection Idaho's
food administrator said that the peo-
pie of this state can serve them
selves and the government in a three
fold way by virtually ceasing to use
both wheat flour and the cereal sub
stitutes, and instead use potatoes j.
increased proportions along with
meat.
GAS l recently suggested, said Mr..
Bicknell, "my personal opinion is
that if the public at large will sto
using flour and the substitutes for a
period of from 80 to 60 days and will
use instead potatoes they will not
only conserve as the necessities of
the case demand, but they will drive
down the price of both flour and
substitutes and at the same time
furnish a market for our large sup
ply of potatoes.
Remedy for High Prices.
Refusal to use both flour and
substitutes would be a much reader
remedy against the high prices con-
corning which so much complaint
is made than any regulation the food
administration could devise.
"While it would perhaps be nee
essary to make exceptions to this
suggestion in favor of invalids and
children | can see no reason why our
adult population could not for per
iod' go upon a potato and meat diet
and absolutely eliminate breadstuffs
from their meals.
81 regret that completion of the
wheat census by the national admin
istration renders necessary the re-
vocation of my ruling of few day:
ago permitting flour to be sold il
the ratio of one part substitutes
to three of wheat flour, thus causing
the people of this state to be pu
absolutely on the original $3.50 plan
but circumstances over which neithe
the national administration por m.
administration had any control ha