The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-13
1000 FOR 1
new FOOD RULES
NOW PUBLISHED
FOR HOUSEHOLDER

All kinds of food, especially wheat,
meats, fats and sugar should be eco
nomically used.
No food shall be boarded. Hoard
ing is the holding, contracting, or ar
ranging of food by any person in ex-
cess of his reasonable requirements
for use or consumption by himself and
dependents for a reasonable time.
This does not refer to stocks of home
grown vegetables and home canned
or preserved fruits.
Householders who are obliged to
use wheat, should not use more than
a total of 1 IL pounds of wheat
flour or prepared wheat, in any form,
per person per week, including the
wheat flour in Victory Bread, and
including the wheat flour or prepar-
ed wheat in crackers, pastory, maca-
ROM, breakfast and other foods.
Victory Bread, is bread manufac-
tured by bakers under the rules of the
United States Food Administration
In estina ting flour consumption,
"a pourIs of Victory Bread may be
considered equal to 1 pound of wheat
flour.
In buying wheat flour an equal
weight of other cereals as substitutes
| for wheat flour must be bought
pound for pound. This is the $3.50
rule. In buying mixed flours, the
| substitutes in them may be count
| ed so that a smaller proportion of
substitutes may be bought with these
flours than with whitef lour. lii
buying graham and whole wheat
| f1nnrG (cnnta ming lose than
per cent. of the entire ,wheat) 6-1O
pounds of substitutes shall be pur-
chased with every pound of such
| flours.
Wheat flour substitutes are hon.
ny, corn grits, corn meal, corn flour,
edible corn starch, barley flour, roll
| ed oats, oatmeal, rice, rice flour,
buckwheat potato flour, sweet potato
flour, soya bean flour and feterita
flour.
Householders in Connecticut may
not buy more than IL of a barrel of
flour or two pounds of sugar at any
one time. Householders in the coun-
try may not buy more than five
pounds of sugar at any one time. In
no event shall any purchaser have
more than 80 days supply of either on
hand.
Householders should not use more
than 1-2 pound of sugar per person
per week.
In addition to the above, however
sugar may be used for home canning
and will be available to the house
holder for that purpose upon his sign
ing a certificate that such sugar is
desired anad will be used only fol-
that purpose.
| No wheat flour, or prepared wheat
: in any form, should be used for any
purpose other than human consump.
ton. No wheat fit for human con.
sumption should be used for Other
purposes.
Meats of all kinds and poultry, ant
more particularly beef, should b.
most economically used eliminatins
all waste. Purchases of these pro
ducts should be restricted and thu
quantity prepared for each meal re
: duced. Consumption of all meats, in
Guiding poultry, should be reduced a
r nearly as possible to 2 pounds pc
week per person over four years O
age.
Fresh milk a III milk in evaporatet
and condensed form and cheese ma
= be literally used
D., Butter may be used for normal con
sumption.
No more ice should be used than i
absolutely necessary
To save transportation, local SUP
plies should be grown and used.
If you fail to make a success O
anything nowadays through your ow,
t fault, you can always lay the trouhI