The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-12
WANT COOPERATION HERE
Local Food Administrator Announces
Wheat Program Of Coming Year.
United States to Join Allies
in Conserving 2o%s Wheat.

ing prepared in their kitchens as they
are about the stitches in their Kitchen
er toesf FL. L. Bullamore, the Keno
sha Food Administrator is doing all in
his power to enforce all food restric-
tons ordered by the national govern
ment. But he cannot be successful
without the cooperation of every wo-
man in Kenosha, not only the woman
| in the home but the woman in the
bakers shop and the woman in the
lunch room.
After careful survey of the world s
food supply by the Food Administers
tors Of the United States, France, Eng
land, and Italy, Mr.. Hoover announces
that to maintain enough supplies and
necessary reserve against disaster, a
conservation of wheat flour must con-
tinue. The Allies have agreed to mix
20e6 Of other grains with wheat in the
! baking Of bread and the people of
America are asked to do the same.
The following rules are provided to
bring about this result:
| /. On and after September LIST, re-
tailers must sell pound of substitutes
with each pounds Of wheat -four sold
to consumers. Housewives are asked
to mix at least 20eo of substitute fours
into wheat flour at home for all bread
baked.
2. Bakers required to buy and use
209o Of substitute -four in their bread.
Mixed E1ours.
Millers are urged to make mixed
four to comply with the needs Of the
housewife to be labeled "Victory
, mixed -four Ingredients to be Ia
beled on the sack. No mixed fours
Except pancake fours) shall be made
or manufactured except in the exact
proportions as outlined below.
The following victory mixed fours
may be sold without substitutes but
at no greater price from the miller,
wholesaler or retail dealer than in the
case of standard wheat -four.
a. Mixed wheat and barley -four shall
be in the proportion of A pounds wheat
-four to one pound barley -four.
b. Mixed wheat and corn -four shall
contain the proportion of 4 pounds
wheat -four to pound corn -four.
G. Mixed wheat, barley and corn
-four shall contain the proportions of s
pounds wheat flour to / pound barley
and ! pound corn -four.
d. Mixed wheat and rye -four shall
contain the proportion of 3 pounds
wheat flour to I pound barley and
pound corn -four.
e. Whole wheat, entire wheat, or gra-
ham -four or meal shall contain at least
$50 Of the wheat berry.
List Of Substitutes.
The retail dealer is required to carry
in stock either barley -four, corn meal
or corn -four and with every sale of
wheat -four must sell it in the proper
tion of ] pound of substitute to each
pounds of wheat -four. Corn flour for
corn bread and Johnny cake should be
purchased separately from combina-
tion sales.
The following list of fours are also
on the substitute list and must be sold
in the same way as barley and corn sub
stitutes:
Rice -four,
Dat flour,
! Potato -four,
Buekwheat -four,
Bean -four.
Pure rye -four or meal may be sold
as substitute in the proportion Of 2
pounds of rye -four to pounds of
wheat flour.
The foregoing rules apply to all Gus
tom and exchange transactions, as we'll
as sales Of flour to farmers.
Ml1ers selling direct to consumers
must obey same regulations as retail
merchants.
Rule ] Admitting bakery products
to 7ess of the 1917 -four consumption
rescinded.
| Rule 2 A-Wheat -four substitutes 70,
bakers same except that rye is now z
substitute on basis of 2 pounds o.
rye -four to every 8 pounds of STANDARD
wheat -four. In this combination O.
rye and wheat -four no other substi
tutes are required. IF the proportion
of rye flour used is less, the difference
between such amount used and 4O9;
must be made up of other substitutes.
| Ruls, 8 A-Bakers now required /
use one pound substitutes to each
pounds wheat -four in all bakery pro
duets including bread except class 81
crackers, in which only 1917 substi
tutes other than rye required.
| Revision of Previous Rules.
| All licensees. including millers, whole
L s2lers. ret2ilers and hakara. ara NO,