Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-30
It IS NOW
VICTORY FLOUR
New Wheat Conservation Pro-
gram Becomes Effective
September First
FIVE VICTORY FLoURS"

The Federal Food Administration
has sent out the following to all mer-
chants, administrators, the county
press and retailers:
"On September LIST, the new wheat
conservation program of the United
States Food Administrator becomes
effective. The general features are:
First: The placing of the house,
holds and bakers upon a uniform
basis of one pound of substitutes TO
four pounds of -four.
Second: The restriction of the
substitutes to a limited list, exclud-
ing rice. hominy, rolled oats, grits
and cornstarch.
Third: The authorization of the
manufacture OF mixed hours which
may be sold without substitutes when
properly manufactured and branded.
THE detailed regulations are as
follows:
THE following mixed flours may be
manufactured under the usual regu-
lations of Health and Revenue au-
thorities. They must be labeled.
Victory Mixed Flour" with the in
gradients in the order of their pro-
portion. They must be milled accord
ing to the Food Administration stan
dards and no other mixed fiours, with
the exception of pancake -four, may
be made or manufactured.
First: Mixed wheat and barley
flour-made of four pounds of wheat
-four and one pound of barley -four.
Second: Mixed wheat and corn
fiour-made of four pounds of wheat
-four and one pound of corn -four.
Third: Mixed wheat, barley, and
corn fiour-made of eight pounds of
wheat -four. one pounds of barley
-four, and one pound of corn -four
Fourth: Mixed wheat and rye
hour-made of three pounds of wheat
-four and two pounds or more of rye
flour
Fifth: Whole wheat -four, entire
wheat -four. graham -four, graham
meal, containing at least ninety-fve
per cent of the entire wheat berry.
Each of these five Victory fours
may NC HOlu NANAAOuL HuUSNAlulCSs Jul
the price charged by the miller,
wholesaler, or retailer. shall not ex-
coed the price of standard wheat -four
"The Fifty-fifty Rule is repealed.
The retailer may carry, If he so de-
sires. only mixed flours, and in that
case no substitutes are necessary. If.
however. he decides to carry stan
dard wheat -four, he must carry in
stock either barley flour, cornmeal,
or corn -four, and must sell with
every four pounds of wheat -four one
pound of the above three substitutes,
unless the customer of his own Volt
ton, without compulsions from the
dealer, elects to take one of the fol-
lowing substitutes: Feterita flour or
meal, rice flour, oat flour, kaffir -four,
milo -four, peanut flour, bean -four
potato flour, sweet potato flour, buck
wheat -four. Pure rye flour or meal
may also be sold as a substitute, but
in the proportion of two pounds of
rye with three pounds of wheat -four.
The customer, has, however, no right
to demand that the dealer carry any
substitutes except the three first
barley flour, cornmeal and
corn -four j
1.-The new substitute rule applies to
all custom and exchange transactions,
that is, the farmer who takes his
wheat to the mill must buy at the
same time the proportion of substi-
tute -four, and the millers who intend
to sell flour directly to the consumer
must provide themselves with one of
the three substitutes: Barley -four,
or corn flour.
Barley flour, cornmeal, or corn
-four carried by a retailer or miller
who sells directly TO the consumer
must conform to the standards fixed
by the United States Food Admins
tration
"The requirement that a retailer
must sell substitutes with all sales of
flour is ABSOLUTE and no
certificate that substitute is on
hand, has been purchased or secured
by the consumer from some source
may be accepted
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