Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05
NEW REGULATIONS
PERTAINING TO FLOUR
Local Food Administrator Gives
Out The Details Of Recent
Order
EFFECTIVE ON SEPT. FIRST

In order that the public may be
fully informed as to the new regula-
tions pertaining to -four. Ridgely p,
Melvin, U. S. Food Administrator for
Anne Arundel County, has given them
out in detail and also statement OF
their general features These are:
First: Beginning Sept. l, 1918. the
placing of the householders and
bakers upon a uniform basis of one
pound of substitutes to four pounds
OF -four.
Second: The restriction of the
substitutes to a limited list, which
does not include rice, hominy. rolled
oats, grits or cornstarch.
Third: The authorization of the
manufacture of mized fiours which
may be sold without substitutes when
properly manufactured and branded.
The detailed regulations are as fol-
lows:
The following mixed fiours may be
manufactured under the usual regu-
lations of the Health and Revenue au-
thorities They must be labeled .'Vic-
tory Mixed Flour" with the ingredi-
ents in the order of their proportion.
They must be milled according to
Food Administration standards and
no other mixed -four, with the excep-
ton of pancake flour, may be made or
manufactured.
First: Mixed wheat and barley
flour-made of four pounds of wheat
-four and one pound of barley -four.
Second: Mixed wheat and corn
fiour-made of four pounds of wheat
-four and one pound of corn flour.
Third: Mixed wheat, barley, and
corn fiour-made of eight pounds of
wheat -four, one pound of barley -four,
and one pound of corn -four.
Fourth: Mixed wheat and rye flour
and two pounds of more of rye -four.
Fifth: Whole wheat -four, entire
wheat -four, graham -four, graham
meal, containing at least ninety-five
percent of the entire wheat berry.
Each of these five Victory fiours
may be sold without substitutes, but
the price charged by the miller,
wholesaler, or retailer shall not ex-
ceed the price of standard wheat
-four.
The Fifty-fifty Rule is repealed.
The retailer may carry, if he so de-
sires, only mixed fiours, and in that
case no substitutes are necessary II,
however, he decides to carry stan
dard wheat flour, he must carry in
stock either braley -four, corn meal,
or corn flour, and must sell with
every four pounds of wheat -four one
pound of one of the above three sub
stitutes, unless the customer of his
own volition, without compulsion from
the dealer, elects to take one of the
following substitutes: Feterita -four
or meal. rice -four, oat -four, kaffir
flour, milo -four, peanut flour, bean
-four, potato flour, sweet potato flour,
buckwheat -four Pure rye -four or
meal may also be sold as substitute
but. in the proportion of two pounds
of rye with three pounds of wheat
flour The customer has, however, nc
right to demand that the dealer carry
any substitutes except the three first
named, barley -four, corn meal and
corn flour.
The new substitute rule applies to
all custom and exchange transactions
that is, the farmer who takes his
wheat to the mill must buy at the
same time the proper proportion OF
substitute -four, and the millers who
intend to sell -four directly to the
consumer must provide themselves
with one of the three substitutes
Barley -four, corn meal, or corn flour
Barley -four, corn meal, or corn
-four carried by retailer or miller
who sells directly to the consumer
must conform to the standards fixed
by the United States Food Admins
tration.
The requirement that a retailer
must sell substitutes with all sales Of
straight flour is ABSOLUTE and nc
certificate that a substitute Is OF
hand. has been purchased or secured
by the consumer from some other
source may he accepted.