Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-05
DEALER WHO GETS PERMIT TO SELL LESS
SUBSTITUTE FLOUR THAN THAT OF WHEAT
ORDERED TO KEEP RECORD OF SUCH SALE

Dealers who sell less than an equal
amount of substitutes with wheat -four
are required to keep q record Of such
sales, the Rock Island county food
board announced to-
day.
In some cases at the present time
where dealers do not have large
supply of substitute flours they may
be given permission to sell wheat
flour with less than an equal amount
of substitute, but. not in any quantity
with less than 25 per cent Of substi
tute.
The full text of the federal food ad
order covering all of thu
latest instructions for conservation
has been received by the county board
1t follows:
In purchasing flour, an equal
weight of other cereals, cornmeal,
cornstarch, corn flour, hominy,
corn grits, barley -four, rice. rice
-four, oatmeal, rolled oats, buck
wheat -four, potato flour, sweet
potato -four, soya bean -four and
feterita f1ours and meals must be
purchased.
The housewife may use these
products separately in making
bread, cakes and pastry, or mix
them as she thinks best. The re-
tailers are to sell wheat -four
only with an equal weight Of these
other cereals.
Consumers will be able to OBJ
tain mixed cereal bread from their
bakers. who will be required I'M
der the license regulations to mix
s. per cent Of other cereals with
their wheat -four, both in bread
and rolls, and will be required
gradually to increase this substi-
tuition until. beginning Feb. "A, a
minimum Of 20 per cent Of such
cereals is to be used. The food
administration strongly urges on
consumers the buying of this
bread, which will be known as
Victory" bread and will contain
not less than 20 per cent of Ger
calls other than wheat. Graham
or whole wheat will also be given
that name. because, containing as
they do, 25 per cent more of the
wheat grain than ordinary white
bread, they, too. will serve the
purpose Of saving wheat flour. If
you bake bread at home, use wheat
substitutes; if you buy it, buy only
Victory bread.
Manufac turers Of macaroni, spa
ghetti, noodles, crackers, break
fast food, pie, cake and pastry
are not to purchase to exceed 70
per cent OF the wheat flour they
used during the corresponding
months of 1917. These manufac-
turers will be performing pa
triotic service by using cereals
other than wheat in their produc-
tons.
Wholesalers will be required,
under license regulations, not to
buy more than 70 per cent Of their
purchases of flour from millers,
as based OIL their purchases for
the corresponding 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 GER
calls; this being the same proper
ton in which the retailer sells to
the consumer, unless the whole
saler satisfies himself that the
substitutes have been already
purchased from another source.
A ruling has been made that in
making any combination sales
under this program, dealers shall
name a price for each OF the ar
ticfes so sold which shall not rep
resent more than a normal pre-
war profit on any one of the arti-
cles sold.
Millers OF -four are to distrib-
ute their output through their
customary channels and markets
in such a manner that each city,
town and district may receive its