The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-28

tanning, as they do, twenty-five per cent
! t25 per cent more of the wheat grain
| than ordinary white bread, they too will
serve the purpose of saving wheat flour
"lf you bake bread at home, Use wheat
substitutes; ii you buy it, buy only Vic
tory bread
-. Manufacturers of macaroni, spa
ghetti, noodles, crackers, breakfast foods,
pie, cake and pastry are not TO purchase
TO exceed seventy per cent go per cent
of the wheat -four they used during the
corresponding months of 1917. These
manufacturers will be performing a pa
triotic service by using cereals other than
wheat in their productions.
- Wholesalers will be required, I'M
der license regulations, not to buy more
than seventy per cent 40 per cent? of
their purchases of -four from millers as
based on their purchases for the CORE
spending months of the preceding year.
and their sales TO the retail trade must
be in the proportion of one pound of
wheat -four to one pound of other ce-
reals, this being the same proportion in
which the retailer sells TO the consumer,
unless the wholesaler satisfies himself
that the substitutes have been already
purchased from another source.
"A ruling has been made that in max
ing any combination sales under this pro-
gram dealers shall name a price for each
of the articles so sold which shall not
represent more than normal pre.war
profit on any one of the articles sold.
"5. Millers of -four are to distribute
their output through their customary
and markets in such a manner
that each city, town and district may
receive its usual proportion The wheat
millers have been required to produce
one barrel of -four (lo6 pounds from
264 pounds of wheat. This is a white
-four and represents from two per cent |
e per cent? TO four per cent a per cent |
higher extraction than from last years
harvest.
20. To assist further in conservation,
Monday and Wednesday OF each week |
ire to be observed as wheatless days,
md one meal of each day as a wheatless
neal This applies both in the home and
n the public eating place, and on such
lays and meals no crackers, pastries.
nacaroni. breakfast foods or other CO,
eals containing wheat should be used
|
of flour as may be needed for
soups or gravies or as bind
+ in corn bread or other cereal breads
-. On wheatless days, and at wheat
ess meals, the food administration urges
hat bread baked in the home be other
han wheat bread. Where bread is pur-
based either for use in public eating
laces or in the home, Victory bread
hould be used, if no wheat substitutes
an be found
".rhe federal food administrator in
ach state will announce the meal to be
bserved as a wheatless meal in his state.
no meal is designated, the United
tates food administration prefers that
he evening meal be wheatless
"s. 1t is further desired in order that !
leat and pork products be conserved,
nat one meatless day Tuesday in !
very week, and one meatless meal in
very day, be observed, and, in addition,
NO porkless days TUESDAY and Satur
ay in every week, be strictly kept
BY 'meatless' is meant without hog. {
title or sheep products. On other days !
Sc mutton and lamb in preference to ,
aef or pork. :
by pCIklesS Is meant NltBbul PUN +
aeon, ham, lard or pork products, fresh :,
preserved. Use fish, poultry and eggs. :,
% For local situations where eXcep
ons are necessary application should be !,
ade to the state food administrators"
OF the nearly 20000,000 householders !;
the United States, about 100000 !
we signed the food administration
edge to follow its food conservation di- I,
ctions. and food administration Off r
lis believe that the regulations will be p
morally observed. !,
Mr.. Hoover estimates that observance Il
the regulations will save about l5,- !,
0 900 bushels of wheat a month for 4,
ipment abroad. This will enable the ii
les TO subsist, although their ration A
II be short n
All OF the aliles, ana the eentfal pow in
as well, are on war bread diet now. a,
,st of the allies are mixing about 40
r cent of corn meal and other substi- p
les with wheat -four in all bread baked, p
d all of Europe is milling a large tv
lount of the whole wheat grain. Both
ance and England have recently cut Pl
wn the bread ration by almost half. c,
IF the voluntary rationing system ID
Is in this country, it then Mr. Hoov- m
said, SIS up to Congress We have no II
wers under the law to compel people b
eat less" DE-
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