The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-05
State Food Administrator
Has Plan for Keeping the
Crop Within State
TO STIMULATE
FUTURE PRODUCTION
Rules Laid Down For Use of Product by
Growers and Grinding by Millers-
Vermonters Asked to Use Vermont
Grown Wheat This Year.

MONTPELIER, Oct. 5.-Frank H.
Brooks, federal food administrator for
Vermont today announced a plan by
which he vigorously appeals to the ply
steal and patriotic conscience of Yer
monters to get the full benefits from
the splendid crop of wheat which has
been raised in Vermont this summer |
by farmers. Vermont needs the flour. |
Vermont needs the middlings and bran
for cattle more than ever. Vermont |
cannot get these from this product on
ly as wheat is ground into flour here
in Vermont Vermont needs to help
not only the railroad transportation
problem, but needs to save transporta
tion charges as well.
Vermonters must, therefore, as a
patriotic and economic and agricultur
al necessity, gladly purchase the flour
that will come from this product of
Vermont.
The plan releases in some important
respects the restrictions heretofore in
effect, but the main object is to increase
| the acreage of wheat another year. If
the plan will accomplish this it will
| be truly economic and conservative
measure of prime Importance.
The plan is as follows:
The farmer who has grown wheat in
| 1918 can take back from the mill a
years supply of flour without substi-
tutes, not exceeding one barrel per per
son for himself, family and help, and
retain seed for next seasons crop. The
farmer, however, will be strongly urged
as patriotic effort to use at least 20
per cent in substitutes. He may also
sell such portion of his surplus wheat
left, after his requirements are cared
for as above, TO any miller, or to his
neighbor, or to anyone else. The mil
Ter, or person to whom the farmer
sells must in every instance strictly
comply with the 1920 rule as regards
substitutes unless wheat SO purchased Is
ground and used in conformity with reg
ulatiOns hereinafter prescribed
. Vermont grown wheat may be dis
posed of in any one of the following
ways:
: i. 1t may be taken to the mill and
ground into entire wheat flour for use
, without substitutes.
: 2. Where mills are equipped TO do sc
. Vermont grown wheat may be groun6
. into Victory mixed -four, which must
f contain at least 20 per cent of some on'
/ of the substitutes now required. Ih'
/ miller under this method must observ'
. the same rules as referred to in No. 3
3. Vermont grown wheat may b.
: ground by the miller by old stone, o
: roller process into wheat flour, the mil
G Ter charging not to exceed 80 cents pc
Il bushel for each 60 pounds of CLEANED
/ wheat. On such basis the miller mus
L return -four and hard or soft wheat fee
D as per schedule in Rule NJ. S. 20.
! 4. 1t may be gathered at some centra
Il point through the agency of any mil
n Ter, county agents, farm bureaus, 10
: shipment in CARROTS to the Food Admin
# istration Grain Corporations Agent,
: T. Southworth, Chamber of Commerce
; Boston. The price delivered at Bosto
T. on the basic" wheat such as No.
Y. Red Winter, is S239 l-2, less per cen
II administration fee to the Grain corpol
alton Wheat so offered must be grade
: by the grain inspectors, and the pric
q would be related to that of basic
wheat according to the grading, III
: Vermont mills will doubtless pay priC
II equal to what could be obtained by ma
keting to the Grain corporation, {
II higher.
II There may be some difficulties in fine