The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-09-20
FOOD CONSERVATION
PLANS ARE CHANGED.
SUBSTITUTES FOR FLOUR WILL
HAVE TO BE PURCHASED ONLY
ON THE BASIS EIaHTY-TWENTY.
NEW RULE is ANNOUNCED

The Original Flfty-Flfty Rule Put Into
Effect Last January Has Resulted In
Consumption of Wheat Flour Being
Reduced BY More Than one.Half.
Nashville, Tenn-Beginning on Sep
TENDER l the food conservation regula.
tons were changed so that from now
on substitutes for flour will have to
be purchased only on the basis of
sighty-twenty instead Of fifty-fifty,
which has been in effect for the past
seven months This is the biggest
change that has been made since the
Food administration was established.
Hereafter those who purchase
flour containing eighty per cent OF
wheat and twenty per cent Of recog,
nized wheat flour substitutes will not
have to buy any substitutes or sign
any pledge to use substitutes II they
buy the standard wheat flour they will
have to buy one pound Of substitutes
for every four pounds Of flour that Is
purchased. II is not expected that
these regulations will very materially
increase the consumption Of wheat
flour, as the people of the State have
for so long used the substitutes that
they will continue to do so. The origi-
nal fifty-fifty rule was put into effect
on January 80 last and under 1t, &C.
cOrding to the very best information
available to the Food Administration,
the consumption of wheat flour In Ten-
nessee has been reduced by more than
one-half. Many merchants and MILL
ers in the State estimate an even larg
er reduction than this, amounting in
many cases to seventy-five per cent.
Heretofore breakfast foods of Ger,
tain kinds, IKE oatmeals, have been
recognized as a substitute This will
not be the case In the future, but oth-
erwise the substitutes will undergo
little change.
Zone Conference.
DR.. H. A. Morgan, federal food ad,
ministrator of Tennessee, has returned
from New Orleans, La, where he had
been to attend a conference OF tie fed,
eral food administrators of t.is zone,
composed of the States Of Tennessee,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tex
as and Oklahoma. The administrators
strongly recommended to Washington
that the prices of cotton products
should be stabilized. DR.. Morgan left
on Sunday for a meeting of the federal
food administrators at Washington.
This conference is now in session and
will be featured by Mr.. Hoover's re-
port of his trip to the nations allied
with us in this war.
Poultry Meeting.
r. @. Giles, poultry and egg repre-
tentative Of the Federal Food Admin
istration in Tennessee, has returned
from Memphis, where he attended the
session of the Tri-State Poultry AssO.
citation and delivered an address. Mr..
Giles pleaded with the produce and
poultry dealers to cooperate in car
rying out the rules and regulations Of
the federal food administration. His
address was splendidly received and
he was accorded an ovation at It's con-
cluEion.
Assistant Food Administrator
A circular letter has been issued By.
DR.. H.. A. Morg,n, federal food admin
htrator Of Tennessee, announcing me
appointment of James !. Finney as as
sistant federal food administrator for
the State. Since last September Mr..
Finney, whose home is at Columbia.
where he is editor of The Daily Her
aid, has been with the food administra-
ton. He first served for two months
as chairman Of publicity during the
pledge card campaign and was later
permanently appointed as the educa-
tional director OF the State. He has
however, discharged practically ths
duties of assistant food administrator
ever since he has been with the Food
Administration, being in charge of ita
administrative activities during the
absence of DR.. Morgan. He has also
been active in organizing the coun.
ties Of the State, harng spoken al.
ready in probably half the counties Of
Tennessee, and held numerous food
administration conferences. He viii
continue to direct the publicity for the
food administration in addition TO The
discharge Of his duties as assistant
federal food administrator. On Wed.
nesday OF this week he presided over
"a conference OF the federal food ad.
ministrators OF the Jackson zone al
the Y. NJ. @. A. building at Jackson.
In addition to being a newspaper cdr
tor. Mr.. Finney has another desirable
qualification for service in the food
administration, being also = farmer,
and therefore understanding and ap.
precisting the problems OF the pro.