St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-03-30
Commissioner j. L. Haller
and Inspector Mackie
Will Enforce Rules.
TROOPS AT FRONT
MUST HAVE FOOD
Louisiana Will Do Her Part
In Self Denial To
Conserve.

WV
ministrator, and H. A. Mackie, Ad-
ministrator for Covington, have re-
ceived instructions from State Ad-
ministrator John NJ Parker as to the
urgent necessity OF strictly conform
ing to the rules of the food admins
tratiOn. Administrator Haller has
instructed the Ward Administrators
to enforce the rulings. The Parker
letters follow:
New Orleans, March IS, 1918.
Mr.. John l.. Haller, Covington, La.
Dear Strive enclose you copies
| OF Special Flour Rules 25 and 26, as
requested. Farmers who grind their
own meal may give certificates to the
quantity of meal on hand and OBJ
tain a proportionate quantity of
wheat flour against such certificates.
At the same time, wheat flour is the
most important food needed for war
purposes during the next four
months, and it is the patriotic duty
of all citizens, farmers and merch-
ants included, to discourage the use
OF -four as much as possible. This
is no hardship in Louisiana where
most of the substitutes are raised
and on hand, and any cooperation
in the line of the governments pur-
poses will be patriotic and appre-
ciated.
Yours very truly,
JOHN NJ. PARKER.
Food Administrator for La.
Rule 26-No licensee manufacture
ing wheat -four shall, without the
permission of the United States Food
Administrator, sell or deliver such
wheat -four to any retailer or con-
sumer thereof, unless the buyer puf-
chases at the same time or the Ii
censee satisfies himself that the buy
er has purchased one pound Of wheat
substitutes for every pound of wheat
-four purchased.
Wheat -four substitutes for this
purpose shall include hominoy, corn
grits, corn meal, corn -four, edible
corn starch, barley flour, rolled oats,
oatmeal, rice, rice flour, buckwheat
flour, potato -four, sweet potato
flour, soya bean -four and feterita
-four and meals.
In making any combination sales
under this rule, the licensee shall
name a price for each of the articles
SO sold, which shall not represent
more than a normal prewar profit on
any one of such articles.
Washington, March 81, 1918.
John NJ. Parker, Food Administra-
tor, New Orleans, La.
Following is the Food Administra-
tons new conservation message
which will be released for publica-
tionin Sunday morning papers: "lf
we are to furnish the Allies with the
necessary proportion of wheat to
maintain their war bread from now
until the next harvest, and this Is
military necessity, we must reduce
our monthly consumption to twenty
one million bushels a month as
against our normal consumption OF
about forty-two millian bushels, or
fifty percent of our normal consump-
ton, reserving margin for distri-
button to the Army for special cases,
leaves for general consumption ap-
proximately one and one-half pounds
of wheat products weekly per person,
many of our consumers are depend
ent upon bakers bread. Such bread
must be durable and therefore re-
quires a larger proportion of wheat
products than cereal breads baked in
the household. Our Army and Navy
require full allowance. The we'll
to-do in our population can make
greater sacrifices in the consumption
of wheat products than can the poor.
In addition, our population in the
AGRICULTURAL districts, where the
other cereals are abundant, are more
skilled in the preparation of breads
from these other cereals than, the
crowded city and industrial popula-
ton. With improved transportation
conditions we now have available a
surplus of potatoes. We also Nave
in the spring months surplus of
milk and we have ample corn and
oats for human consumption. The
drain on rye and barley as. suUsti-
tutes has already greatly exhausted
the supply OF these grains, to ehect
the needed saving OF wheat wq are
wholly dependent upon the VotnR
tary assistance of the American bed
pie and we ask that the following
rules be observed:
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