Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-09

one pound of cereal substitute to
three pounds of wheat flour. The
balance of cereal substitutes should
be used without wheat -four in the
preparation of corn bread and muf-
fins, buckwheat cakes, breakfast
cereals, etc.
3-In the application of these reg
ulations to families dependent upon
bakers bread and doing no home
baking, it should be understood that
the bakers Victory" loaf contains
only twenty-five per cent. of cereal
substitutes. Patriotic observance of
the conservation rules requires a
limit in the use of "Victory" bread
to 1 Y pounds per person per week.
Where this amount of bread is used,
only one-half pound of flour per
week per person may be used for all
additional purposes of cooking and
pastry as macaroni, crackers. cakes,
wheat breakfast cereal and every
other form combined.
Family Rules
4-The foregoing rules apply to
family practice only and do not af-
feet in any way the regulations for
wheat consumption in public eating
places, clubs. etc.
5-PubliS eating places, clubs, etc,
will continue to observe two wheat
less days per week as heretofore,
Mondays and Wednesdays. on which
no wheat product will be served in
any form whatever. except in "Vic-
tory breads or other Victory prod
uts. No public eating place. club or
similar esta ablishment will serve
more than two ounces per service of
breadstuffs of any kind, including
bread, rolls, pastry, cake, crackers,
macaroni and any and every form
of food containing wheat. No public
eating place. club or similar estab-
lishment will place on tables or offer
foods containing wheat in any form
unless especially ordered. No pub
lie eating place, club, or similar es-
tablishment may buy wheat flour,
wheat products or wheat food in any
form, in total comhina tion figuring
on the basis of three meals served
per day per person.
6-Retail grocers and other re-
tail dealers in flour. including flour
millers who retail, shall not sell or
deliver wheat flour to individual
consumers, residing in towns or
cities, in quantities in excess of
twenty-four and one-half pounds.
nor to any individual consumer in
rural or farm communities in guam
titles in excess of forty-nine pounds.
In no case shall he knowingly sell
or deliver to any individual con-
sumer an amount of flour which will
make the purchasers total supply
greater than is reasonably required
for his household or establishment
during the next thirty days, on the
basis of six pounds per month per
person. This rule is not intended to
authorize at any time sales in an
amount in excess of that above pre-
scribed.
Must Buy Substitutes
THE dealer (including the mil
ler) shall not sell or deliver wheat
flour to any individual consumer
thereof, unless the buyer purchases
at the same time one pound of wheat
flour substitutes for every pound of
wheat flour purchased, or in case of
whole wheat or graham flour con-
tanning at least ninety-five per cent.
of the entire wheat, siX-tenths of a
pound of wheat flour substitutes for
every pound of such whole wheat or
graham flour purchased.
S-Bakers 2 may not purchase
wheat flour in excess of seventy per
cent. of the average consumption
during four months preceding March
l, 1918.
o Manufacturers using edible
wheat flour or other wheat products
for nonfood purposes will cease such
use entirely.
To furnish our allies with the
of wheat required to main
tain their war bread from now until
the next harvest, is a military neces-
sity which can only be met by a rigid
observance by all American people
of the foregoing rules as an ire
ducible minimum of wheat consump-
ton. Those among our population
who are well-to-do, and those en-
gagged in the lighter occupations, as
we'll as those in agricultural dis
tricts, where cereals other than
wheat are abundant and where
are more skilled in their
preparation, can make greater sacri-
fees in the consumption of wheat
products than are here provided for