Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-04
RULES FOR FLOUR RETAILERS
ISSUED UNDER FEDERAL AUTHORITY

The United States food administra.
ton, thru the Office of the Iowa food
administrator, has issued the following
rules under which wheat -four may be
sold by retailers. Dealers please make
note that graham and rye flours are
not substituted in the list of substi-
| tutes:
Commencing Feb. /. and until further
notice from the United States food ad-
| ministration. no retailer dealing In
| wheat -four shall. without the written
permission of the United States food
/ administrator. sell wheat -four to an!
person unless such person purchases
| from him at the same time one pound
Of wheat -four substitutes for every
| pound of wheat -four purchased.
Wheat -four substitutes for the pur-
! pose of this rule shall include: Corn
-four. corn meal. edible corn starch
hou,iny, corn grits. barley -four, rolled
oats, oatmeal, rice, rice -four, potato
-four. sweet potato -four, huckwhea'
-four. cotton seed -four. milo. katfir and
feterita fiours and meals. soya bean
flour, peanut -four, c2ssava -four. faro
-four. banana -four and other products
Of similar nature. Rye and graham
t1ours are not included as substitutes,
In an order received today by l. c,
Abbott. county food administrator, thru
the Iowa office, the dealer is author
ICED 10 include wheat with the above
list as wheat -four substitutes for the
present only. one pound Of beans TO one
pound Of wheat -four; four pounds OF
rotatoes 30 one pound Of wheat fiour.
But retailers must sell one pound OF
substitute with every pound Of wheat
-four.
Purchasers NAV desire TO buy several
kinds Of substitutes with their -four
and this Is permissible, For example
he may. with his sack Of -four purchase,
thus: One hundred pounds OF potatoes,
e-oualinE twenty-five pounds OF -four:
eight pounds Of corn meal. eQualinE
eight pounds OF -four: Eve pounds of
beans. equalins FIVE pounds of -four:
three pounds Of ho-niny. eCualing three
pounds Of -four: four pounds OF rice.
eoualins four pounds of -four; two
pounds Of banana -four. equaling two
pounds Of -four: three pounds of corn
That would give him q forty-eigft-
pound sack Of wheat flour
Wheat conservation rules are well
known. but il may be added that -four
aud sugar must not be advertised. that
not more than one-fourth barrel of
-four and not more than five pounds of
sugar may be sold 10 any city or town
customer nor more than ten pounds Of
sugar and not more than one-half bar
rel. Of -four 10 any rural customer.
These limitations must be strictly OBJ
served in following out the fifty fifty
plan OF selling -four and substitutes.
Purchasers should understand that
evasion Of the law and purchase Of
more than the amounts laid down as
the limit renders them liable under the
riding laws 10 heavy fines or i'm
p-isonment or both
In making combination sales under
these rules dealers shall name q price
ro- each Of the articles so sold which
shall not represent more than normal
pre-wa- profit On any one OF such arti-
Giles. without regard TO speculative
profit or market conditions.
II all cases where the dealer de-
livers wheat -four without at the same
time delivering wheat -four substitutes
pound for pound, the dealer must Sc
cure from the purchaser written Ger
-!Ncate 70 the effect that he has In his
possession al that time wheat -four
four substitutes. pound FOR pound