Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-03-05
The Law AS To FOOD
Summary Of Regulations Up To
Date.
What IS EXPECTED OF CONSUMERS
The Price Of Flour. Sugar and Other
Food Commodities is More or Less
Definitely Regulated and It is
Provided Distinctly that there Must
Be No Hoardins Of Any Kind.

Definitely Regulated and it is
Provided Distinctly that there Must
Be No Hoardins Of Any Kind.
Below will be found summary Of
all the latest food rulings. The sum-
mary covers all commodities and II
would be we'll for all citizens 10 cut
this report out and save for future
reference and guidance:
Why We Must Save Food.
This great war Is being fought on
two continents-with armies In Eu-
rope and with food in America.
With practically all OF their able
bodied men in the trenches and in the
military service. France. England and
l.aly have few left to cultivate the
fields. America must feed the armies.
We cannot ship them corn because
they have no mills: the meal will spoil
in transit. We must ship them wheat.
Their food animals are getting few
er each year.
Furthermore. America must feed
these armies out of her savings.
Mr.. Hoover has promised that he
will feed America first and our asso-
ciatcs In the war afterward. This
forcibly puts il up TO us 10 save food.
Flour.
No person should have more than
a 3O-day supply of flour. No more
than 10 per cent OF usual supply
ST Guild be sold or bought.
Flour should be sold rs follows: To
consumers in towns and cities not rN-
cccding one eighth TO one fourth bar
rel lots. or less. To rural consumers
or those who live considerable dis
tance from town. dealers may sell
one fourth TO one-half barrel. oI
less. These limitations must not bt
exceeded.
No flour shall he sold or delivered
unless the buyer purchases at IN,
same time one pound Of wheat iloul
substitutes for every pound of wheat
flour purchased. Wheat flour substi'
tutes are: Hominy, corn grits. corr
meal corn -four. edible corn starch
barley -four, rolled oats. oatmeal. rice
| rice -four, buckwhcat -four, potato
flour. sweet potato flour. SOFA bear
-four. and fetcrita flour and meals
Farmers raising their own corn ma!
get a miller's certificate showing corr
ground, and thereon purchase floui
within the above limits without sub
stitutcs.
| Profit on Flour.
| Wholesale profit:
| Gross maximum profit for whole
salers in flour should not exceed from
lffty to sevcnty-five cents per barrel.
Retail Profit:
.-Prast- ;ted- by -rataalivL LtdaaalarS+
original mill packages should not cx-
cccd from eighty cents to $1.2O pei
barrel, depending upon character oi
service performed. Where retailers
sell amounts less than original mil
package the gross profit should not cx-
ceed one cent per pound. Any profit
| i'm excess Of these or in excess OF thai
obtained in prc-war times will be con-
sidcred cause for an investigation.
Sugar.
Sugar should be sod to town anc
city consumers in not more than
to pound quantities: to farmers anc
rural customers in not more than
to 10 pound quantities.
Dealers are prohibited from max
ing combination sales OF sugar u
connection with other commodities
except that of corn meal. The dealer
in.his discretion may require the con
sumner TO purchase two pounds OF corr
meal for the purpose Of increasing
the use of corn meal and thereby saw
ing -four.
Profit on Sugar.
Wholesale profit:
| Jobbers and wholesalers shall mo-
charge more than 25c per 100 pounds
Retail profit:
Retailers profit should approx
mate 10 per cent.
| Meat.
The armies need meat. The savint
of meat by the American people D.
feeding our armies and all meat pos
sible should he saved. For this rca
son the food administration has cs
tablished meatlcss days as follows:
Tuesday is mcatlcss. Saturday Il
porkless. One meatless meal ever!
day.
Patriotic people will follow this rule
Poultry.
The department of agriculture urg
cs farmers not to sell hens between thu
first of February and the first Of May
and at the same time requests buyers
not to buy hens during that time.
Every hen which is sold before th'
first OF May represents food loss tt
the nation of about thirty eggs. The
total loss of eggs represented by thu
customary selling of hens between thu
first OF February and the first OF Ma,
amounts to about 150.000.0O0 eggs. The
value of these eggs Is about so pei
cent of what the hen is actually worth
so that this programme does not en-
tail a loss to the farmer, but an actua
gain.
Cotton Seed.
Farmers are urged not to use cot
ton seed for fertilizer or for feeding
to stock. They lose much none,
thereby and the country loses mucf
food.
Licenses.
All information concerning licenses
should be addressed to Food Admin
istration, License Department, Wash
ington, D. c. Licenses are issued from
Washington.
Save food for your country by OBJ
serving:
New Food Programme.
Monday is wheatless.
Tuesday Is meatless.
Saturday is porkless.
One wheatless meal every day.
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