The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
SUBSTITUTES FOR
WHEAT Limited
State Administration Con-
centrating Efforts to Get
Supply of Cereals
SMALL PURCHASES
OF FLOUR ARE URGED
Moved into Vermont in Carload Lots,
Embargo on These Commodities Hav-
ing Been Lifted

Embargo on These Commodities Hav-
ing Been Lifted.
ST. ALBANS, Jan. 3l-Acting Food
Administrator j John T. Cushing returned
yesterday from New York where he
held a conference with Administrator
James Hartness of Springfield, who
sails this week for Europe as a mem
Der of the United States aircraft com
mission.
At Mr.. Cushing 5 office last evening
1t was said that the Vermont admins
tration had been concentrating its eff
forts to secure the shipment into Yer
mont of the wheat substitutes which
are needed to enable the grocers to
make the $3.50 sales of certain cereals
with -four as ordered by the national
food administration. Early this month
and before the recent order had ia ken
form in Washington. Mr. Cushing rep
resented to the national administration
that the supply of feed and wheat sub
stltuteS IN Vermont was limited and
he was promised shipments, which, how
ever, did not materialize, the transpor-
tation situation being given as the rea-
son for this failure
Mr.. Gushing has been informed bv
the head of the transportation division
OF the food administration that cereals
and livestock feed will be moved into
Vermont and the other New England
states in train load lots. the embargo
against these commodities having been
lifted.
Whether Vermont will be able to con
tnue with a $3.50 sale will be deter
mined within short time. conferences
with dealers and administration Off.
Gals being held on this point. 1t has
been represented to Mr. Cushing that
as result of the Washington order
there has been an unusual demand for
Hour On this point Mr. Cushing said.
People who do not actuallT need
flour at this time are doing poor
tsersiee tt*hd -d6trtry ~ tTgiht to ft8}ttir--
chase it. The public should make their
present supply &c as far as POSSIBLE
owing to the critical time in putting
this conservation movement over and
until the present limited stock of sub
Stltute3 is augmented. only those who
are actually out of flour should ATTEMPT
to buy 1t at the stores We must have
the fullest measure of cooperation -
The cereals which may be sold in
the 5000 combination are: Barley
flour, buckwheat flour, corn flour. corn
meal, corn starch. corn gras. feterita
iour9 and meals, hominy, oat meal, no
tato flour, rolled oats. soya bean forr
and sweet potato flour RYE -four may
he sold without substitutes but is not
permissible as 4 substitute to be sold
with wheat flour.
AT the food administration s office
II was said that this was the complete
list of substitutes and could not at this
me be increased. Combination sales
OF grain are not permitted in the or
der Mr. Gushing stated that no sales
except those in the proper $3.50 com
blnatlon should be made Grocers are
urged to make every effort to secure
, the substitutes and to request Their
customers not to make -four purchases
, until actually compelled to- He said
the reason for this request was to re-
duce the demand for the substitutes
, until time was allowed to get more Of
Thorn into the state.
While 1t IL realized that sales of
flour will of necessity be limited owinr
to the $3.50 requirement. it was said
at the office of the administrator. that
-four in towns and cities should at no
time he sold In quantities greater than
, from eighth to quarter barrel auanti-
; ties; IN rural and farm communities in
! quarter to half barrel quantities
The battle line has been extended
) right across every dining table in
| America, Mr.. Cushing said 'The
, rood situation is critical. Our allies
must have food and we must send it to
{ them II we intend to support the Pres
E ldent IN his pledge to devote the com
> plete strength and the full resources of
! America to the task of winning the
war. Every one should realize that
when meal is eaten or food pur-
chase made an act is being performed
that will have its direct influence on
the course of this war as surely as the
u actual military manoevers at the front
ASK the people of Vermont to coop.
: crate with the food administration ia
the unit and not to respond to panickv
impulses OF fear or greed or combina
: tion OF these forces and urge them tc
buy as little as possible of flour at this
S time
1t is possible that it viii be neces
saFy TO change the percentage of wheat
substitutes required and there will be
, no hesitaney in doing it if it is abso
! iutely necessary. It will be only tenn
perary concession, however, for the sit
I uation is so critical that the American
people must join the issue as quickl,
az possible. / feel confident that We
= VIII receive the fullest measure of sup
port IN difficult situation from The
people Of the most American of all tn,
American states''