The true Democrat., 1918-02-16
WEEKLY FOOD ADMINISTRATION
LETTER
The principal food recommendations

| The principal food recommendation
are.
Tuesday aud Friday meatless
2 Saturday porkless
2 Monday aad Wednesday wheatlesH
Oue meatIess meal each day Git
is preferred this should b. the evening
neal
8. one wheatless meal each day
s Save fats and sugar every day
Owing to the same acuteness Of the
! food situation the Food Administration
recently Issued the "dfty-ffry -four
order This compels the purchase of q
pound OF substitutes for every pound
Of wheat -four The double atm # TO
reduce the consumption Of -four so aa
to furnish the quota Of wheat which
must be shipped before the next crop
comes IN, and TO popularIzc the other
cereals The latter include bomuy
corn grits, corn meal corn BouT, edible
corn starch, barley -four. rolled oats
oatmeal rice. rice -four. buekwhsat
-four potato -four. sweet potato -four
soya bean dgur. and fptpfita -four and
meal The order Is especially favorable
ia this section. where most of the sub.
stllules are or can b. raised This very
fact led to protest from maHy Louis.
lana farmers who said that t4aY had
Quantities Of the substitutes on hand
land did not think that they should be-
forced 10 bay more su as 10 procure
the -four they needed John N Parker
Food Administrator for Louisiana.
ruled temporarily that they could uh.
tain foH without other purchases upon
their certificates Of snch substitutes IN
possession
Washington has since aphoId Che
ruling Another general complaint was
by the dealers and bakers. regarding
ihe difficulty Of obtaining substitutes
Ia sufficient quantity This opens up a
home marketing opportunity for rice
and other products, bHt meantime
Washington has made mp list ai mills
and afms having substitutes oU hand
This Is boiug distributed fof the Food
Administration hy A. II. Worries, Of New
Orleans, chairman of the state bakers
emergency committee The government
emphasizes that the prices az sHbst-
iutes must not be increased because
of the demand created bg ita actluu (
IN the same way. it has announced
that reasonable margin Of retail
profit on sugar Is considered to be
around oae cent a pound The people |
are asked TO reduce sugar consumption
to a per capita of three pounds each
month
The cutaver land men have brought /
influence to bear IN favor of the federal /
dog tax measure upon which Mr. Parker /
and other Southern food administrators /
ara insisting as the most effective /
means Of fostering the mutton and /
wool industry in this section The !
forest chiefs add the argument that
rhe curbInR Of the killing ours VIII I
make II possible also for them 10 raise
more hogs an the millions Of acres slti /
Idle MIR Parker recently received a
letter from a Louisiana farmer which |
bears out the cutoyeF land men In q
unique and striking way The whole
story il told In the following para
graph = love a dog. but mine got
killed, aud what she ate is frd 90 a pig, |
md yop ought to see him. And funny /
oo. he chases every dog or eat of the
place I wiIl Get POO pounds Of pork |
instead Of the wag on a dogs tail"
An admonitlou from the United
states Food Administration heartily |
By Mr. Parker, urges the con.
eryation Of laying hens during the
fpxt 90 days the period of largest egg
,roduction That viii assure the most
ggs, nifh more mature chickens To
ell after that Poultry and eggs viii
al only add food bat save meat Be
ause of that there may BE- subsequent
peelal urging to permit the babf
hicks 90 grow up