St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-03-30
PARISH FOOD
COMMISSION
GETS LETTER
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| First-Householde to use not to
exceed a total of one and one-half
pounds per week OF wheat products
per person, this means not more than
! one and three-fourths pounds Of vic
tory bread containing the required
percentage Of substitutes and about
one-half pound of cooking flour,
macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies,
cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, all
combined.
| Second-Public eating places and
clubs to observe two Wheatless days
per week, Monday and Wednesday,
as at present. In addition thereto,
not to serve to any one guest at any
one meal, an aggregate of breadstuffs
macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies,
cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, con-
tanning total of more than ounces
of wheat -four No wheat products
to be served unless specially order
ed. Public eating establishments
not to buy more than 6 pounds of
wheat products for each ninety meals
served, thus conforming with the
limitations requested of the house
holders.
Third-Retailers to sell not
more than one-eighth of barrel of
-four 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 without
the sale Of an equal weight of other
cereals.
Fourth-We ask the bakers and
grocers to reduce the volume Of vic
tory bread sold by delivery Of the
three-quarter pound loaf where one
pound was sold before, and cores
ponding proportion in other weights.
We also ask bakers not to increase
the amount of their wheat flour pur-
chases beyond seventy per cent of
the average monthly amount pur-
chased in the four months prior to
March LIST.
Observation-Disclosures using wheat
products for nOn-fOOd purposes
should cease such use entirely.
Sixth-There is no limit upon the
use of other cereals, f1ours and meal,
corn, barley, buckwheat, potato
flour, etc. Many thousand families
throughout the land are now using
no wheat products whatever, except
"a very small amount for cooking
purposes, and are doing so in perfect
health and satisfaction. there is no
reason why all of the American peO-
pie who are able to cook in their
own households cannot subsist per-
fectly we'll with the use of less wheat
products than one and half pounds
week and we especially ask the
Well-to-do households in the cOun-
try to follow this additional program
in order that we may provide the
necessary marginal supplies for the
parts of the community less able to
adapt themselves to so large pro-
portion of substitutes. In order that
we shall be able to make the wheat
exports that are absolutely demand
; ed of us to maintain the civil popu-
lation and soldiers of the Allies and
our Army we propose to supplement
the voluntary cooperation OF the
public by further limitation of dis
tribution and we shall place at once
restrictions on distribution which
will be adjusted from time to time
to secure as nearly equitable dis
tribution as possible, with the arrlv-
al of harvest we should be able to
relax such restrictions. Until then
we ask for the necessary patience,
sacrifice and cooperation of the dis
tributing trades.
U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION.