Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-04-05
RULES
TO CONSERVE WHEAT
Food Administration Limits Con-
sumption of Wheat Products to
y Pounds Per Capita Per
Week
Spokane, March "a.

Spokane, March "a.
The saving OF wheat and wheat
products has now become military
necessity and it is necessary to cut
consumption to one and one-half
pounds of wheat per person per week
if America is to meet the demands
Of allied Europe, according to the
United States Food Administration.
The food administration urges a
greater consumption of potatoes. The
following telegram was received
from Washington today:
If we are to furnish the allies
with the necessary proportion of
wheat to maintain their war bread
from now until the next harvest
and this is a military necessity-we
must reduce our monthly consump-
ton to 21,000,00 bushels a month
as against our normal consumption
Of about 42,000,000, or so per cent
Of our normal consumption, reserv-
ing a margin for distribution to the
army and for special cases. This
leaves for general consumption APP
proXim ately Il pounds of wheat
products weekly per person.
Many of our consumers are de-
pendent upon bakers bread. Such
no I,ty h
fore, requires a larger proportion of
wheat products than cereal breads
baked in the household. Our army
and navy require a full allowance.
TIL ewell-tO-do in our population can
make greater sacrifices in the con-
The well-to-do in our population can
the poor In addition our popula-
ton in the agricultural districts
where the other cereals are abund-
ant are more skilled in the prepara-
ton of breads from these other GER
calls than the crowded city and in
dustrial populations.
with improved transportation
conditions we now have available a
surplus of potatoes. We also have
in the spring months a surplus of
milk, and we have ample corn and
oats for human consumption. The
drain on rye and barley as substi-
tutes has already greatly exhausted
the supply of these grains. To eff
feet the needed saving of wheat we
are wholly dependent upon the vol
untary assistance of the American
people, and we ask that the follow
ing rules shall be observed:
First-Housholder to use not to
exceed total of one and one-half
pounds per week of wheat per per-
son.
This means not more than Il
pounds of victory bread containing
the required percentage of substi-
tutes, and about one-half pound of
cooking flour, macaroni, crackers,
pastry, pies, cakes, and wheat break
| fast cereals all combined.
Second-Public eating places and
clubs to observe two wheatless days
per week MONDAY and Wednesday,
as at present.
In addition thereto not to serve in
the aggregate a total of more bread
stuffs, macaroni, crackers, pastry,
| pies, cakes and wheat breakfast GER
calls. containing a total of lore than
| two ounces of wheat flour to any one
guest at any one meal; no wheat
products to be served unless special
| ly ordered; public eating establish
ments not to buy more than six
pounds of wheat products per month
per guest, thus conforming with linn
| itations requested of the household
ers.
Third-Retaller to sell not more
to any town customer at any one
time, and not more than one-quarter
of barrel to any country custom er
at any one time, and in no case to
sell wheat products without the sale
of an equal weight of other cereals.
Fourth-We ask the bakers and
grocers to reduce the volume of vic
tory bread sold by delivery of the
three-quarter pound loaf where one
pound was sold before, and CORE
spending proportions in other
weights.
We also ask bakers not to in
crease the amount OF their wheat
flour purchases beyond 70 per cent
of the average monthly amount pur-
chased in the four months prior to
March 1.