The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-09-16
new RULES FOR USE
OF WHEAT FLOUR
Mr. Hoover Changes Re sulatiors
Puts Americans on An
Y Equality With Allies.
TWENTY-EIGHTY RATIO
INSTEAD OF FIFTY-FIFTY
This Means That Only 20 Per Cent
Of Substitutes Are
.'~r 49,. Required Now.s


In the new wheat flour regulations
recently announced by Herbert G.
Hoover United States food admin.
strator, In message to A. D. Wilson,
federal food administrator for Mime.
sofa, it is declared to be the intention
to place the United States, England,
France, and Italy all on an equality as
to war breads, that all may share and
share alike" Consequently it is pro-
vided that the wheat bread of all shall
contain 20 per cent 81 other grains
than wheat. ....~ @@+
In line with this plan, the new regu-
lations call for the use and sale OF
: fours to be known as Victory Mixed
Flonrs" and to be labeled with the in
gradients in the order of their proper
ton. The mixed fours, however, must
be mixed and milled in accordance
with the standards of the food admin
stration. The rules for mixing tho
Victory Mixed Flours follow:
Mixed wheat and barley flour
pounds of wheat flour for every
pound of barley -four. T.. ~.
Mixed wheat and corn -four shall
contain the, proportions of four
pounds Of wheat flour to one pound
Of corn -four.
Mixed wheat. barley and corn
flour shall contain eight pounds Of
wheat flour to one pound of barley
and one of corn -four.
Mixed wheat and rye -four shall r
nf
pounds of wheat -four to two pounds
of rye -four -4t<r1 y, 1.s~ 49,
Whole wheat, entire wheat, or
graham -four or meal shall con-
wheat berry. - "a 49,
All of these mixed fours may be
sold without substitutes, but at no
greater price from the miller.
wholesaler, or retailer than in the
case of standard wheat -four.
Il Present stocks of mixed fours,
s susss mag az Be ee"s % ~tho9 Ut
substitutes until exhausted. II y
they contain less than 20 per cent
y OF substitutes, a pound Of substi-
Il tutes must be sold with every four
n pounds Of the mixed flours. "
Pancake and 'self-rising flours con-
tanning substitutes may be manu-
! 1actufed only. upon special permit
/ from the food administration, and
may be sold without substitutes
T.
substitutes other than rye. ID
n - Fifty-Fifty Rule Suspended.
~ The new regulations do away with
the $3.50 rule. The retail dealer, SELL
ing standard wheat -four is required to
carry in stock either barley -four, corn
meal, or corn flour, and with every
sale of wheat -four must sell in COM
bination one pound Of substitute for
every four pounds of standard -four.
The following flours may also be sold
in combinations: Kaffir- -four, milo
-four, feterita flour or meal, rice flour,
oat flour, peanut -four, bean -four, po-
tatO flour, sweet potato flour, buck
wheat flour, Pure rye -four or meal
may be sold as substitute in the pro-
portion of at least two pounds Of rye
to three pounds of wheat -four.
BAKING Rules Changed. r.,
The following changes have been
made in the rules governing the bak.
Ing trade: ..r-
Rule l A.. requiring that the con-
sumption of wheat in bakery prod
ucts shall not exceed 70 per cent
!, of the 1917 consumption. is. re-
scinded, IL. r- s'r.s a 49,.
Rule A. with regard to wheat
-four substitutes remains as. here.
tofore except as to rye, which will
be q substitute Mhsnsr used upon a =.
basis of not less than 40 per cent,
or two pounds OF rye -four to three IA
pounds of wheat -four, II less than, -
this proportion, Of rye flour is used
the difference between the amount
q ma Ia
up from other substitutes. -sr
Rule s A will now require bak-
ers to use one pound Of substitutes
-four e IN all Ge neu saSe Ct Glass Wnsa
Crackers. in which only 10 per cent pol.
Of substitutes other than rye viii
be required.
The use of the word Victory" will
be allowed in naming all products com.
plying with any of the foregoing re-
quirements. ~ > -. Il. 49, e..
All limits on quantity sales to con
sumers. including the thirty days sup
ply to consumers and supplies for
specified period to farmers on ex.
change transactions are removed The
food administration expects the con.
sumer, however. 10 purchase with mod
tTdtiON dEu pldGlICC CUuSGINGllOu Win
great care.
Manufacturers OF Victory Mixed
Flours must take out internal revenue
licenses and pay special taxes as here
tofore. ~: # B.. - u
On all custom and exchange trans.
actions, mills, elevators, or grain deal
ers must either deliver to the farmer
whole wheat, graham or prescribed
mixed fiours or sell him the required
proportion of substitutes in combina
stion with standard wheat flour, except
that the federal food administrators,
with the approval of their zone com.
mittees, may authorize in their states
the usual certificate to be- accepted
from the farmer showing that he has
purchased or ground the required
amount Of substitutes.
Secret of True Industry. t