The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-10-17
Food Administration Notes.

The following general orders have
been issued by the United States
Food Administration governing g
hotels, restaurants and ali all p p'ncac
where cooked food is sold to be con-
sumed on the premises. These or,
ders will be enforced by the Food
Administration under penalty pro
vided in the Food Control Act. they
go into effect October 81:
/. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to be served salot l,h any
b bread n or Other 6ak al aas
wheat flour substitutes, nor shall it
serve or permit to be served more
than 2 ounces of this bread, known
as Victory Bread, or if no Victory
Bread is served, more than 4 ounces
muffins, Boston brown bread. etc.
Sandwiches or bread served at board
ing camps, and rye bread containing
500 or more or pure rye flour, are
excepted.
2. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to be served bread
or toast as a garniture or under
meat.
g. No public eating place shall
allow any bread to be brought to
the table until after the first course
is served
4. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to be served, to one
patron at any one meal more than
one kind of meat For the purpose
of this rule meat shall be considered
as including beef, mutton, pork,
poultry and any by-products there
Of.
5. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to be served any
bacon as a garniture.
6. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to be served to any
one person at any one meal more
than one-half ounce Geo. OF butter 911t tel a,,,,,
serve or permit to be served to any
one person at any one meal more
than one-half ounce of Creddar
commonly called American cheese.
8. No public eating place shall
use or permit the use of the sugar
Nor shall any public eating place
serve sugar or permit to be served
unless the guest so requests and in
no event shall the amount served to
any one person at any one meal eX-
coed one teaspoonful or it's equiva-
lent.
8. No public eating place shall
use or permit the use of an amount
of sugar in excess of two pounds for
every ninety meals served including
all uses Of sugar on the. table and
in cooking, excepting such sugar as
may be allotted by the Federal Food
Administrators to hotels holding a
! for this special baking purpose shall
be used for any other purpose.
10. No public eating place shall
burn any food or permit any food
to be burned and all waste shall be
saved to feed animals or reduced to
obtain fats :,
ii. No public eating place shall
display or permit to be displayed
food on it's premises in any manner
as may cause its deteNorat ton so
that it can not be used for human
consumption. :,
u. No public eating, place shall
serve or permit to be served what is
luxe; and in any event, no cream
containing over 2O%o Of butter fat
shall be served.
Save all the shells of hickory
nuts, walnuts and butternuts for the
der boys. Turn them in, no matter
how small the quantity, to Estes
| garage.
The distributors of milk and
cream, under license regulations,
| nave been nOtlned OF tne new rune
! which provides that cream contain
| ing more than twenty per cent but
| ter fat must not be bought or sold.
This rule applies to licensed distrib-
utors of milk and cream.
A conference between the Food
Administration the five big packers
and about forty smaller firms, to
discuss the sterilization of the price
of hogs upon the plan presented, by
the Producers Committee, resulted
in the packers who opposed the plan
vigorously, finally agreeing to sup
port the Administration by doing
their best to maintain the minimum
of $3.50 per hundred for average
droves over the heavy packing sea-
son, the average not to include the
usually excluded cripples, boars,
stays, little pigs and old sows.. The
packers also agreed to maintain the
October price but, to make it more
workable, it was placed upon the
basis of SIS average minimum, and
| it is expected to work out at the fig.
ure proposed by the producers OF
about $3.50 for the whole month
on droves defined as above. They al
so agreed to use their best endeav-
| ors to prevent fluctuations of more
than fifty cents per hundred in any