Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-08-29
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Answer-Wbeat unfit for human con-
sumption may be mixed with poultry
| food in amounts not to exceed 10 per
cent Of mixture.
4. What regulations govern the price
of wheat?
Answer-All mills and elevators
| have been furnished basic price in bulk
at mill Further questions concerning
| this should be referred to State Food
| Administration.
5. Under what conditions may farm
ers exchange wheat Of the 1918
| crop for flour?
| Answer-Farmers may exchange
wheat of the 1918 crop raised By them
| selves for -four at mills. elevators or
grain dealers in amounts sufficient for
needs of their household up to October
| l, based upon maximum allotment of
| eight pounds per person per month.
| 6. May farmers purchase wheat OF
other farmers for seeding pur-
poses?
| AnsWer-Yes.
Z. How should wheat be handled
which is mixed with oats, rye or
barley?
| AnsWeT-If the wheat cannot be
separated and the mixture contains
only a small amount of low grade
wheat, the mixture may be used for
| feed. II there is considerable
amount of high grade wheat in the
mixture, it must be ground into flour
and sold under the regulations govern
ing mixed fiours. The wheat must be
separated if possible.
CORN, OATS, RYE, BARLEY AND
THEIR PRODUCTS.
1. For how long a period may corn,
oats, rye or barley be kept on
hand or under control by mills,
elevators or other grain dealers?
Answer-Not longer than sixty days
except by written permission of U. S.
Grain Corporation, 226 S. LaSalle ST.,
Chicago, Illinois.
2. Can rye be ground for feed?
Answer - County Food Administra-
tors are authorized to give farmers
permission, upon request, to have rye
ground for feed where marketing con-
ditions are such that other feeds are
not available.
EGGS.
/. Who are required to obtain a Ii
cense for handling eggs?
Answer-AT general stores selling
eggs to any person other than the con-
sumner, wholesalers, jobbers, commits
sion merchants, pa -kers and shippers
must take out fec eral egg license.
2. Where may the application for such
license be obtained?
| Answer-License Division, Food Adj
ministration, Washington, D. c.
8. Must eggs be candIed?
| Answer-Au eggs must be candled
by the buyer or seller whether he be
general merchant, jobber, packer or
commission mechant.
4. May eggs be used by barber shops
and beauty pariors for shampoo
ing purposes?
| AnSWer-NO.
MEATS.
1. What are the regulations govern
ing the use of beef?
| Answer-Beef may be eaten at any
meal on every day. Retail markets
are requested to handle cattle which
dress not over ATS pounds. The heav-
Ter animals are for export to the army
2. Is the eating of other meats pro-
! hbIted at any time?
AnSW or-NO.
FLOUR.
1. What is the household allotment of
flour per person per month?
Answer-SiX pounds per person per
month.
2. Are substitutes required with flour
sales?
Answer-One pound of substitutes
for each pound of wheat flour pur-
| chased.
3. In what amounts may merchants
sell flour?
AnsW may sell not to
exceed 241@ pounds of wheat flour to a
city or village customer and not to eX-
coed 40 pounds to a country customer
at time The $3.50 rule applies to all
such sales.
A. What are the official flour substi-
tutes under the $3.50 rule?
Answer - Cornmeal, edible corn
starch, corn flour, hominy, corn grits
barley flour, rice, rice -four, oatmeal,
rolled oats, oat flour, buckwheat -four,
potato flour, sweet-potato flour, soya-
bean -four, Feterita fours and meals.
5. What are the rules governing the
sale of mixed flour?
Answer-MiXed fiours may not be
| sold without substitutes unless author
| lied by the State Food Administration.
A sworn statement giving ingredients
and percentage of each ingredient
must be filed with the State Food Ad-
ministration before such authority
will be given. The flour must contain
not less than 81 per cent wheat -four
substitutes.
6. What mixed fiours have been req
istered and may be sold without
substitutes?
Answer-Henkels' Velvet Pastry,
Henkels' Self-rising Buckwheat Com
pound, Henkels' Pancake Flour, Rus
sci Mills Milling 'Ready-to-Use" Flour,
| Kern's Brand Rye and Wheat Flour,
Kern's Rock River Rye and Wheat
Flour, Liberty Flour Paste.
7. What regulations govern mills and
elevators in exchanging wheat of
the 1918 crop for flour?
| Answer-When grain Of the 1918
crop grown by farmer is exchanged
| for -four, the farmer is entitled to suf-
| ficient -four for the needs of his house
| hold up to October L, 1918, based upon
an allotment of not to exceed eight
pounds per person in household per
month.
8. Is the farmer required to buy sub
stitutes?
Answer-No, but he is asked to sign
l.