The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-29
MORE WHEAT FLOUR
TO Be AVAILABLE.
4
Four Pounds to One Pound
Substitutes After
Next Sunday
NEW SUBSTITUTE
LIST is ISSUED
Food Administration Hopes that Flours
Already Mixed with Substitutes May
Be Put on Market to Save Buying
Separately.
Especial to The Reformer.)
MQNTPEI IER Ann s

MONTPELIER, Aug. 80
Federal Food Administrator Frank n.
Brooks today made the announce
ment that beginning Sept. / new wheat
conservation rules for householders
wholesalers, retailers, bakers and mllers
would go into effect throughout Vermont
and the rest of the nation While it is
necessary that conservation of wheat
flour be maintained for the coming year
throughout the allied world nevertheless
the necessity for such stringent conserva
ton as has been practiced since last Jan
uary does not now exist and the new
regulations are a modification of the
rules promulgated at the first of the
year.
1t has been agreed that the wheat
bread of the allies shall contain 20 per
| cent other grains than wheat and the
food administration holds that 1T is
only Just that we should bear our share
| in this saving and our bread should be
at least universal with those who are
suffering more greatly from the war than
ourselves" Here in the United States
the main reliance will be on the volun-
tary action of the American homes to
enforce the new mixture.
The new regulations supersede the fa-
nous $3.50 rule. The retailer selling
standard wheat flour is required to carry
/ in stock either barley flour, corn meal or
corn flour, and with every sale of wheat
flour must sell combination of some
one of these in the proportion of one
pound OF substitutes to each four pounds
of wheat flour. In other words. instead
lof the substitution being pound for
pound, it is now one pound of substitute
for every four pounds of flour.
No dealer may force any other substi-
tutes in combination upon the consumer
and these substitutes must conform to
the standards fixed by the United States
food admin& uation. There are some 10
1 ealities shefe bther substitutes are avail
able and which retailers may wish to
carry In order to meet this situation
the RIIpEing fiours maS also be sold in
such combination in lieu of the above
aours If the consumer so demands:
At the rate of one pound to each four
pounds wheat -four, thatis, kaffir flour
milo flour. Feterita -four and meals, rye
flour, oat -four, peanut flour bean -four
buckwheat -four
Pure rye flour or meal NAV be sold as
a substitute. but must be sold in proper
ton of at least two pounds of rye with
three pounds wheat flour
1t will be seen that this makes a new
list of legal substitutes and that som,
of the substitutes formerly allowed arr
no longer permissible. Some of these ar,
. oat meal. rolled oats, etc 1t is hoped
that flours already mixed with the sub
stitutes viii soon be manufactured anC
on the market commercially SO that i
will not be necessary for the consumes
TO purchase his wheat flour and substi
tutes separately. All such combination
fiours should be labelled Victory Mixed
Flour" and are to be labelled with the in
gradients in order of their proportion
The millers are being furnished the exac
proportions of flour and substitute
1 which they must use in the manufacture
of Victory mixed flour.
The Victory mixed ilours may he sol,
i without substituting, but at no create
price from the miller, wholesaler or re
4 tail dealer than in the case of standar,
wheat -four. Where the Victory mikes
-four is not sold it is required of the re
tailers that at the same time straigh
wheat flour is sold 20 per cent of lega
substitute fiours must be sold conciden
tally. These same general rules appl
also to all custom and exchange fransac
= tions. as we'll as sales to farmers, unles
! modified by special announcement of tn
= federal food administration of the stat
4 where the mills are located
Revision of previous general rules
authorized as follows, going into effec
September /:
THE previous rules limiting licensees
i millers, wholesalers, retailers and baker
to 80 days supply of -four vii be change
To permit a 60days' supply.
\ The rules limiting sales by retailer
h of wheat flour to an eighth of barr,
Is in cities and a quarter of a barrel
sparsely settled districts are rescinde,
d "The.r rule limiting the sale of flour b
millers TO wholesalers or wholesalers I
retailers in combination with substitute
l. or certificates therefor. and the rule r,
D strieting the sale TO 20 per cent preyiol
u sales are rescinded.
Manufacturers of alimentary past,
and wheat breakfast foods are limited I
their normal consumption wheat
wheat -four with understanding that the
are not to unduly expand their ordinaI
consumption of wheat.
"Rules prohibiting the starting of ne
plants ready for operation prior to Jul
1, 1918, are rescinded.
Where milers sell directly to consun
ers, they shall obey the same regulation