Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-09-04
THE WEEKS FOOD FACTS.

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States food administrator provide for
Victory Mixed Flours" as follows:
Mixed wheat and barley flour, con.
tanning four pounds OF wheat -four
to one Of barley -four.
Mixed wheat and corn -four con.
tanning four pounds OF wheat flour
to one Of corn -four.
Mixed wheat and rye -four, contain.
ing three pounds Of wheat -four to
two pounds Of rye -four.
Mixed wheat, entire wheat, or era.
ham flour, containing at least IS per.
cent OF the wheat berry.
| Such t1ours may be sold without
substitutes but at no greater prices
from miller, wholesaler, or retailer
than standard wheat flour. They must
be mixed and milled in accordance
with the standards of the food admin.
istration.
The new rules do away with the
nifty fifty rule. The retailer, selling
standard wheat flour is REQUIRED to
sell only one pound of substitutes with
every four pounds of standard wheat
flour. The substitutes are. Barley
nour, corn meal or corn -four, kaflr
hour, milo flour, feterita -four or meal,
rice Hour, oat flour, peanut -four, bean
nour, potato flour, sweet potato -four,
DuckWheat flour. Oatmeal, rolled oats
and rice are not substitutes. Pure
| rye flour or meal must be sold as a
substitute In the proportion of two
| pounds to every three pounds Of wheat
| -four.
This change of rules does not mean
that Americans need no longer con-
serve wheat -four. The food admins
tration asks that great care be taken
In conserving, in giving share and
share alike" to the allies.
The biggest food fact of the fall Is
the 100000 bushels of seed corn
which is to be selected by Minnesota's
farmers in Seed Corn Time, Septem-
Der 1920. One million bushels of seed
corn will meet the needs of Minnesota
for the next two years. Last spring.
the seed corn surplus was used up
to the last grain, and the food admins
trat1on, cooperating with the farm
bureaus of the country, is trying to
get corn growers to gather enough
seed corn this fall to provide for two
years. This will reestablish the states
seed corn surplus and go far toward
1nsuring the corn crop for the next
two years.
The call is for every corn-grower in
Minnesota to select one bushel of seed
corn for every three acres he plants to
corn, and to select it from the stand
ing stalks in the field before a killing
frost comes.
It is a hard fact, but the manufac>
ture Of candies and sweet soft drinks
at county fairs this fall will practi-
cally be barred, for the food admins
tration says there is no sugar to spare
for the purpose. But who cares? To
go without such things will help the
boys lover there" Besides, the rule
does not mean. that there will be no
soft drinks and sweets at the fairs,
for licensed manufacturers may make
such things in their factories for sale
at fairs. Remember, though, that
candy is a luxury, and sugar needs
to be saved.
Sugar will be allowed at eating plac.
es at fairs just as at other restaurants
two pounds for every ninety meals,
or one pound for every ninety meals
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similar foods are sold.
Food experts in the army canton
ments are helping the boys in the
amy to eliminate all wastes of foods.
If the boys in service are going to do
that kind of thing, why not those who
stay at home?
should be cooked in the water in
which they are soaked. This saves
food material.
A. D. Wilson, food administrator
for Minnesota, says there is no food
boarding in canning or preserving
enough fruits, vegetables, or meats
for reasonable family use through the
nonproductive months of the fall, win
ter and spring.