Middletown transcript., 1918-02-02

II you bake bread at home use
wheat substitutes; if you buy it., buy
only Victory bread.
"3. Manufacturers of macaroni,
spaghetti, noodles, crackers, breakfast
foods, pie, cake and pastry are not to
purchase to exceed 70 per cent of the
wheat -four they used during the cor
responding months of 1917. These
manufacturers will be performing
patriotic service by using cereals 9TH
er than wheat in their productions.
|. 4. Wholesalers will be required.
under license regulations, not to buy
more than seventy per cent GO; per
cent? of their purchases of -four from
millers as based on their purchases for
the corresponding months of the pre-
ceding year, and their sales to the re-
tail trade must be in the proportion
of one pound of wheat -four to one
pound of other cereals, this being the
same proportion in which the retailer
sells to the consumer, unless the
wholesaler satisfies himself that the
substitutes have been already pur-
chased from another source.
"A ruling has been made that in
making any combination sales under
this program, dealers shall name a
price for each of the articles so sold
which shall not represent more than
normal pre-war profit or any one of
the articles sold.
IS. Millers Of flour are to distribute
their output through their customary
channels and markets in such a man.
ner that each city, town and district
may receive its usual proportion. The
| wheat r.illers have been required to
produce one barrel of flour Q96
pounds) from 264 pounds of wheat.
This is a white flour and represents
from two per cent. e per cent? to four
per cent. G. per cent? higher eXtrac-
| ton than from last years harvest.
IS. To assist further in consarva-
| ton, Monday and Wednesday of each
week are to be observed as wheatless
days, and one meal CT each day as
wheatless meal. This applies both in
| the home and in the public eating
place, and one meal of each day as a
wneat-crackers, pastries, macaronl,
breakfast foods, or other cereals con-
tanning wheat should be used. The
only exception to this is such small
amounts of flour as may be needed for
thickening soups or gravieS or as a
binder in corn bread or other cereal
foods.
~. On wheatless days and at
wheatless meals the Food Administra-
ton urges that bread baked in the
home be other than wheat bread.
Where bread is purchased, either for
use in public eating places or in the
home, Victory bread should be used
if no wheat substitutes can be found.
1.-THE Federal Food Administrator
in each state will announce the meal
to be observed as a wheatless meal In
his state If no meal is designated the
United States Food Administration
prefers that the evening meal be
| wheatless.
~. 1t is further desired, IN Order
that meat and pork products be con-
served, that one meatless day (Tues-
day. in every week. and one meatless
, meal in every day, be observed, and,
in addition, two porkless days (Tuesday
and Saturday, in every week be strict
ly kept BY 'meatless' is meant with
out hog cattle or sheep products. On
other days use mutton and lamb in
preference to beef or pork BY pork
less is meant without pork, bacon,
ham, lard or pork products, fresh or
preserved. Use fish, poultry and eggs.
70. For local situations where ex-
ceptions are necessary application
should be made to the state food adj
ministrators."