Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-25
American People are Placed on Il new
Voluntary Bread Ration OF Pound
and Half of Wheat
Products u Week.
CHANGE IN VICTORY BREAD
bakers Must use 25 per Cent Flour
Substitutes Instead Of 20 per
Cent.

consumption OF wheat products one
half in new rules issued by Food Ad-
ministrator Hoover. State Food Ad-
ministrator Deems of Burlington has
forwarded the order to V. C. Crosley in
this city.
The new ration is pound and a
half of wheat products week or a
pound and three-quarters Of victory
bread week, with an additional half
pound Of pastry, pies. cakes. crackers,
or wheat cereal to each person.
Accompanying the new rules was an
order that hereafter bakers must use
% per cent of wheat substitutes in vic
tory bread instead of 20 per cent as at
present.
The new order in part follows:
If we arc to furnish the Allies with
the necessary proportion of wheat to
maintain their war bread from now
until the next harvest, and this is a
military necessity, we must reduce our
monthly consumption to twenty-one
million bushels of wheat month, as
against our normal consumption OF
about forty-two million bushels, or
fifty per cent of our normal cOnsump-
ton.
Reserving margin for distribution
TO the army and for special cases, this
leaves for general consumption ap-
proximately one and one-half pounds
Of wheat products weekly per person.
Many of our consumers are depen-
dent upon bakers bread. Such bread
must be durable and therefore requir-
cs a larger proportion of wheat prod
ucts than cereal breads baked in the
household. Our army and navy re-
quire full allowance. The well-to-
do in our population can make greater
sacrifice in the consumption Of wheat
products than can the poor In addi-
ton, our population in the agricultural
districts, where the other cereals are
abundant, are more skilled in the pre-
paration of the breads, from these
ether cereals, than the crowded city
and Industrial populations.
With improved transportation condi-
tions, we now have available a sur
plus of potatoes We also have in the
spring months surplus of milk, and
we have ample corn and oats for
human consumption. The drain on
rye and barley, as substitutes, has al
ready greatly exhausted the supply Of
these grains To effect the needed
saving of wheat, we are wholly de-
pendent upon the voluntary assistance
of the American people, and we ask
that the following rules shall be OBJ
served.
Householders to use not to exceed a
total of one and one-half pounds per
week of wheat products per person.
This means no: more than one and
thrce-fourtlIs pounds of victory bread
containing tho required percentage of
substitutes, and about One-half pound
OF cooking flour, macaroni, crackers,
pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast
cereals, all combined.
Public eating places and clubs to
observe two wheatless days per week,
Monday and Wednesdays as at present.
In addition thereto, not to serve in the
aggregate total Of more breadstuifs,
macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cak-
total of more than two ounces of
wheat flour to any one guest at any
one meal. No wheat products to be
served unless specially ordered. Pub
lie eating establishments not to buy
more than six pounds of wheat prod
uc:s per month per guest, thus con-
forming with limitation requested of
the householder.
Retailers to sell not more than one
eighth Of a 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 with
out the sale of an equal weight of
other cereals.
We ask the bakers and grocers to
reduce the volume of victory bread
sold, by delivery of the three-quarter
pound loaf, where one pound was sold
before, and corresponding proportions
in other weights. We also ask bakers
not to increase the amount of their |
wheat flour purchases beyond 20 per
cent of the average monthly amount
purchased in the four months prior to
March first.
Manufacturers using wheat products
for non-food purposes should cease
such use entirely.
There is no/limit upon the use of
other cereal flours and meals namely:
corn, barley, buckwheat. potato flour,