The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-01
STATE CONSUMING
TOO MUCH FLOUR
Believed Many of the 10000
Who Signed Food Cards Are
Lax in Observing Pledge.
NEXT 90 DAYS ACUTE PERIOD.
Administrator ScoviIIe Declares Con-
nectIcut Must Be Awakened to
Necessity of Reducing Wheat
Consumption.
NEXT 60 DAYS ACUTE PERIOD.

Hartford.-Robert Scoville, federal
food administrator for Connecticut,
and George NJ. Landers, one of the as
slstant administrators and chairman
of the Connecticut Committee of Food
Supply, have just returned from Wash
ington, where they were in attendance
three days last week at a conference
which Mr.. Hoover held with the vari-
GUS state administrators. AS a result
of this conference 1t is believed, by
reason Of the better transportation
known to be coming, that Connecti-
cuts supply Of wheat substitutes will
be materially increased, with a CORE
spending reduction in price. The ad-
ministrators were warned that because
the shipping problem had prevented
the expected exports of wheat to our
own soldiers and their comrades in
arms last December and January and
because the Dutch ships now running
to South America had been delayed in
their imports of Argentine wheat the
situation regarding breadstuffs will be
very serious during the next 60 days.
Mr.. Scoville said upon his return
that too much emphasis could not be
placed upon the fact that the people
of Connecticut, in common with the
rest of the country, must Immediately
stop using so much wheat flour, He
intimated that there was only about so
much more available anyway and that
the wise person would stretch the
flour on hand over the acute period,
which would probably extend until
along into May Both Mr.. Scovil1e and
Mr.. Landers called attention to the
fact that there was a plentiful supply
of cereal substitutes In this country
and that, If in no other way, Con-
necticut people would be awakened to
the fact that we are at war by the
necessity IF cutting down their wheat
consumption and training their palates
to relish some of the heaIthful substi-
tutes.
Inasmuch as porkless Saturday has
been removed from the list of tabooed
days in the Food Administration cal
endar and as poultry and mutton are
permitted, temporarily, on meatless
Tuesdays, the Food Administration
thinks 1t only proper that increased
conservation should be conferred on
wheat. Of the $4,000 families and
handlers of food who signed their
country's food pledge card in "on-
necticut last fall, by no means all are
observing their full pledge, in the
opinion of the Food Administration,
and this is believed to be especially
true in the neglect Of the provision
that everybody should have at least
one wheatless meal each day.
Among the latest regulations of the
Food Administration are these:
Bakers may use rye as a wheat flour
substitute in Victory bread until
March 81. Rye -four is not a substi-
tute which the purchaser may take in
securing wheat flour.
Corn flakes and pulled rice are not
wheat flour substitutes, the test of a
substitute, in a general way, being
whether or not it Is a substitute for
wheat flour in baking bread.
Potatoes, which went we'll for the
Connecticut farmers for some time,
are no longer a substitute to be sold
with wheat flour. Every state is now
on the so called 5000" basis for pur-
chases of wheat -four.
Purchasers Of wheat flour, whether
city or country jewellers, may not re-
ceive more than twenty-four and one
half pounds (one-eighth barrel sack)
at one time, with an equal amount of
some of the approved substitutes.
Hoarders Of flour or any other food
commodity should Immediately rid
themselves of their excess holdings
either by returning the Illegal stocks to
the merchant who sold them or by can
didly informing the Food Administra-
ton, which is unlikely in such cases
to invoke the boarding penalty Of the
law, which is $1,000 fine and two
!