Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-04-10
CONSERVATION TO
Be INTENSIFIED
Food Administration Outlines
Policy to Meet Desperate
Food Situation.

The National Food Administration IL
anxious to impress the message OF
conservation to the utmost. The peo-
pie of the country at large do not ap'
preciate the demand for wheat. The
Food Administration at Washington
has stressed the situation in this ma
ton wide proclamation:
EFF 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
military necessity, We must reduce
our monthly consumption to twenty
one million bushels month as against
our normal consumption OF about for.
ty-two million bushels or fifty per cent
OF our normal consumption, reserving
a margin for distribution to the army
and for special cases. leaves for gen.
eral consumption approximately one
and one-half pounds Of wheat products
weekly per person. Many OF our Gus.
toners are dependent upon bakers
bread, such bread must be durable,
and therefore requires larger pro
portion Of wheat products than cereals
baked in the household. Our army
and navy requires full allowance.
The well to do in our population can
make greater sacrifices in the con-
sumption Of wheat products than can
the POOR. To effect the needed saw
ings Of wheat, we are wholly deepnd-
ent upon the voluntary assistance Of
the American people, and we do ask
that the following rules be observed:
First, householders to use not to
exceed a total Of one and one-half
pounds per week OF wheat products
per person. This means not more than
one and thTee-fourths pounds OF Vic
tory bread containing the required
percentage OF substitutes and about
one-half pound Of cooking -four, maca-
roni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes,
wheat breakfast cereals all COM
bined.
Second, public eating houses and
clubs to observe two wheatless days
per week, Monday and Wednesday, as
at present. In addition thereto not to
serve in the aggregate total of more
breadstuffs, macaroni, crackers, pas
try, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast &C.
reals, containing a total Of more than
two ounces of wheat flour to any one
guest at any one meal. No wheat
products to be served unless espe.
cially ordered. Public eating estab.
lishments not to buy more than six
pounds Of wheat products per month
per guest thus conforming with lin.
itations requested of the house
holders.
Third, retailers to sell not more
than one-eighth of q barrel of flour to
any town customer at any one time
and not more than one-quarter OF
barrel to any country customer at any
one time, and in no case to sell wheat
products without sale Of an equal
weight of other cereals.
Fourth. we ask the bakers and gro
GERS to reduce the volume of Victory
bread sold, by delivery Of the three
quarter pound loaf where one pound
was sold heretofore, and correspond
ing proportions in other weights. We
also ask bakers not to increase the
amount Of their wheat flour purchas-
ed beyond seventy per cent of the
average monthly amount purchased in
the four months prior to March first.
Fifth, manufacturers using wheat
products f-r non-food purposes should
cease such use entirely
Sixth, there is no limit upon the
use of other cereals, aours, and meals,
corn, barley, buckwheat potato -four,
etc. Many thousand families through
out the land are now using no wheat
products whatever, except q very
small amount for cooking purposes
and are doing SO in perfect health and
satisfec ection There Is no reason why
all Of the American people who are,
able to cook in their own households
cannot subsist perfectly we'll with the
use of less wheat products than one
and one-half pounds week.