Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1918-02-07
The New Food Regulation.

against Germany has serviced
more effectively to bring the peo.
pie of North Carolina to q reali-
zation that they are at war than
the proclamation of President
Wilson and the subsequent Or
ders of the Food Administration
putting the meIican people on
War Bread, IN the opinion of
State Food Administrator, Hen
ry A. Page.
The office OF the Food Admins
tratlon at Raleigh has been food
ed with inquiries in person, by
long distance telephone and tele-
graph and by letter, requesting
information touching upon the
new order of things. The answers
of the Food Administration have
been Uniform and have conveyed
the idea that no exceptions can
he made to the order requiring
that flour shall be sold only in
combination saleswith an equal
AMOUNT OF other cereals; and that
bakeries, hotels and cafes must
make a mixed bread which shall
contain not less than 5 per cent
Of other cereals and mustcontain
" Feb. 24th, 20 percent ofOther
| cereals.
The new regulations work this
way: The flour miller must have
satisfactory proof when he sells
lour to a jobber or retailer that
such dealer has purchased like a.
mounts of cereal subst:tutesfrom
,ther sources.
| A jobber or wholesaler in sell.
ing to a retailer must sell an co.
ul amount of cereal substitutes
With his flour or must be atisfied
hat the retailer has purchased
ercal substitutes from othersour
es.
The retailer must sell -four On.
y in combination sales with an
'qual amount of cereal substitu-
tes not only because he is requir
d to do'so but because be could
ouy flour only in such amounts
IS he purchases the other ter
.als. H.
| Whole wheat -four containing
Ill middllngs and bran, may be
sold in combination with half its
weight of cereal substitutes as it
already contains % per cent Of
wheat miIdlings and bran. This
viii no doubt load to n greatly
increased popularity OF this whole
one food product. In fact, it il,
anticipated that Il majority Il
he hotels and restaurants and
,akerlcs of the state will use
whole wheat -four to a large ex.
ent instead ofattempting to mix
,ther cereal substitutes with
white wheat flour.
!. Since the government for mill
-ary and other purposes las been
onpellet to purchase, or practi.
ally commander, 80 per cent Of
he output of the roller mills OF
the country it Is very evident
that other cereals must be used
to at least that extent il the snp.
ply of white wheat flour is to be
spread out until 4 he next harvest.
Inasmuch as sales OF -four Will
oe in much smaller qualities and
will require more expensivehand-
ling, the Food Administration
has revoked its recent ruling fix.
! ing $3.50 as the maximum
price for -four and will allow re.
tailers hereafter their usual prof.
it's on -four up to one cent a Id.
The cereal substitutes that may
'e sold in the required combina-
lion snlc with tiour are as fol
= ows: Shorts and middlings, corn
! -four, corn meal, edible corn
2 starch, bominy, corn grits, bar
< ley -four, rolled oats, oatmeal,
- ice, rice flour, potato -four, sweet
Il potato -four. buckwheat flour,
y :ottonseed -four, milo, kattir, f.
' terita flours and meals, sOya bean