The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-09-13
NEW RULESFOR Use
OF WHEAT FLOUR
Mr.. Hoover Changes Regulations
Puts Americans on An
Equality With Allies.
TWENTY-EIGHTY RATIO
INSTEAD OF FIFTY-FlFTY
This Means That Only 20 Per Cent
of Substitutes Are
(, Required Now.

of Substitutes Are
: Required Now.
In the new wheat flour regulations
recently announced by Herbert C.
Hoover, United States food admin
,strator, in message to A. D. Wilson.
federal food administrator for Mime
sofa, it is declared to be the intention
to place the United States, England,
France, and Italy all on an equality as
to war breads, that all may share and
share alike" Consequently it is pro-
vided that the wheat bread of all shall
contain 20 per cent of other grains
than wheat.
In line with this plan, the new regu.
lations call for the use and sale OF
fiours to be known as Victory Mixed
Flours" and to be labeled with the in
gradients in the order of their proper.
ton. The mixed fours, however, must
be mixed and milled in accordance
with the standards of the food admini
stration. The rules for mixing the
II
Mixed wheat and barley -four
shall be in the proportion Of four
pounds Of wheat -four for every
pound of barley -four.
Mixed wheat and corn -four shall
contain the proportions OF four
pounds of wheat flour to one pound
of corn -four.
Mixed wheat, barley and corn
flour shall contain eight pounds Of
wheat flour
and one of corn flour.
Mixed wheat and rye flour shall
contain the proportions of three
pounds of wheat flour to two pounds
of rye flour.
Whole wheat, entire wheat. or
graham flour or meal shall con-
tain at least 95 per cent of the
wheat berry.
All of these mixed fiours may be
sold without substitutes, but at no
greater price from the miller,
wholesaler, or retailer than in the
case of standard wheat flour.
Present stocks of mixed fiours,
containing 20 per cent or more OF
substitutes, may be sold without
substitutes until exhausted. If
they contain less than 20 per cent
Of substitutes, a pound of substi-
tuteS must be sold with every four
pounds of the mixed f1ours.
Pancake and self-rising fiours con-
tanning substitutes may be manu-
featured only upon special permit
from the food administration, and
may be sold without substitutes II
they contain 20 per cent or more OF
substitutes other than rye.
Fifty-Fifty Rule Suspended.
The new regulations do away will
the $3.50 rule. The retail dealer, sell
ing standard wheat flour is required t,
carry in stock either barley flour, corr
meal, or corn -four, and with ever!
sale of wheat flour must sell in com
bination one pound of substitute fo
every four pounds of standard flour
The following fiours may also be solt
in combination: Kaffir -four, milt
flour, feterita -four or meal, rice -four
oat -four, peanut flour, bean -four, pc
tato flour, sweet potato -four, buck
wheat -four. Pure rye -four or mea
may be sold as a substitute in the pro
portion of at least two pounds of ry,
to three pounds of wheat -four.
Baking Rules Changed.
The following changes have beef
made in the rules governing the bak
ing trade:
Rule 1 A. requiring that the con-
sumption of wheat in bakery prod
ucts shall not exceed 70 per cent
of the 1917 consumption, is re-
Rule A, with regard to wheat
-four substitutes remains as here
tofore except as to rye, which will
be a substitute when used upon a
basis of not less than 40 per cent,
flour three
pounds of wheat -four. If less than
this proportion of rye flour is used
the difference between the amount
used and 40 per cent must be made
up from other substitutes.
Rule 6 A will now require bak-
ers to use one pound of substitutes
for every four pounds Of wheat
-four in all products save Glass 8 A
Crackers in which only 10 per cent
of substitutes other than rye will
be required.
The use Of the word Victory" will
be allowed in naming all products com
plying with any of the foregoing re
| quirements.
ALI limits on quantity sales to cor
sumers, including the thirty days SUP
| ply to consumers and supplies for
specified period to farmers on e5
| change transactions are removed Tn
food administration expects the cor
sumner, however, to purchase with mod
Grafton and practice conservation witt
great care
Manufacturers of Victory Nike,
| Flours must take out internal revenu
licenses and pay special taxes as here
| tofore.
On all custom and exchange trans
actions, mills, elevators, or grain deal
ers must either deliver to the farme
whole wheat, graham or prescribe,
mixed fours or sell him the requires
proportion of substitutes in combins
ton with standard wheat -four, excep
that the federal food administrators
with the approval of their zone com
mittees, may authorize in their state
the usual certificate to be accepted
from the farmer showing that he ha
purchased or ground the requires
amount of substitutes.