The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-25
USE OF WHEAT
is CUT IN HALF
Hoover Limits Each Person
to ~ Pounds of It's
Products a Week
MUST SAVE 21,000,000
BUSHELS PER MONTH
America Is Determined to
Answer the Allies
Cry for Bread

Washington, March % - America
determined TO answer the alliesl cry ia
bread Every American last night wa
called TO greater sacrifices that tn
stream Of food may be kept flowing am
our allies saved from famine.
Food Administrator Hoover appeale,
to all to cut in half the peace time con
sumption OF wheat bread.
In asking every person TO restrict him
self to l1a pounds of wheat product ,
week, Mr.. Hoover pleaded for patien
and loyal sacrifice during the critiea
months ahead, when even more drasti,
steps may be necessary. Bakers were or
dered TO increase TO % per cent on April
~ the wheat substitutes in bread. Pros
poets of greater substitution are ahead
it was stated.
Added to the gravity of the situation
is a big drop in marketing of wheat, fol-
lowing adoption of the Gore amendment
fixing a price of $3.50 for wheat. Upset.
ting all plans of the food administration,
passage of this amendment has led farm
ers to hold wheat for the higher price
Market receipts have dropped from
100000 bushels to 100000 bushels a
month since talk of a higher wheat price
began.
Serious complications are threatened,
among them possibility OF farmers plant
ing wheat exclusively instead of corn and
thereby cutting off feed for hogs, leading
to meat famine next year.
So delicate is the world food situation
according to food experts, that the least
bungling may totally upset conditions
and cause disaster in the tremendous job
of feeding the allied world.
Summarized, Mr.. Hoover's new rules
are:
Maximum consumption of wheat
products to be "a pounds per week per
person.
Public eating places and clubs to
limit each patron to total of two
ounces per meal of breadstufls. cereals,
pastry and other wheat products com
bined. Customary wheatless Mondays
and Wednesdays to be continued
3-Retailers to limit -four sales to
town customers to "a of barrel, coun-
try customers to Il of barrel at any
one purchase and equal weight of other
cereals to accompany sale.
4-Bakers to deliver q pound loaf |
where lpound loaf is being sold. Bakers |
to restrict wheat flour purchases to 20 |
per cent. of average monthly purchase
5-Manufacture of wheat products for
nonfood purposes TO cease entirely.
Voluntary cooperation of the public is
relied upon wholly in etfecting these reg
ulations
Further restrictions on distribution
were limited at by the food administra.
ton, a step necessary, it was held, to
make wheat exports demanded by the al
lies. Hope of relaxation in the strict con
,eryation program with the new harvest
was held out
Until then, we ask for the necessary
patience, sacrifice and cooperation of
the distribution trades" the adminstra-
lion stated.
IF we are to furnish the allies with
Ihe necessary proportion of wheat to
their war bread from now until
he next harvest, and this is a military
we must reduce our monthly
to 2l,000,000 bushels, as
against our normal consumption of about
100000 bushels, or 50 per cent of our
formal consumption"
y /
as already greatly exhausted the sup
,ly of those grains. food administration
fficials say. But a surplus of potatoes is
low available, and we have ample corn
nd oats for human consumption Added
0 this is "a surplus of milk usual during
pring months. Liberal supplies Of these
INSTITUTES, it is believed, will furnish
ssental nourishment during the period
s - :
There is no limit on the use of other ,
ereals hours and meals, corn. barley,
uckwheat and potato flour, it was point q
d out. {
Many thousand families throughout a
he land are now using no wheat prod
cts whatever except very small a
mount for cooking purposes and are do r
u so in perfect health and satisfaction, !
was declared q
There is no reason why all of the q
merican people who are able to cook in e
leir own households cannot substitute q
erfectly aud slbsist well with the use I
{ less wheat products than one and one :
ali pounds week, and we especially !
* the well-to-do households in the
,umtry to follow this additional pro
ram in order that we may provide the !,
ecessary marginal supplies for those y
arts of the community less able to =
lapt themselves to so large proper !,
on OF substitutes.
in order that we shall be able to
axe the wheat exports that are abso-
tely demanded OF us TO maintain the ,
vii population and soldiers of the allies
nd our own army, &c propose to supple
ent the voluntary cooperation of the
Iblic by a further limitation of distri /;
ition, and we shall place at once re- ~