The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-12
ELIMINATE USE
Of WHEAT ENTIRELY
HOusehOlders Urged to Do
This If Possible Until
After Next Harvest
| NO MEATLESS DAYS
UNTIL MAY FIRST
United States Food Administration An
nounces It's New Food Program-Eco-
phasized.

! phaSlzed
/ ST. ALBANS, April l2.-The Unit
4 states food administration has an
nounced its new program for the
/ households of thc country, which calls
for conservation of wheat to the limit
ana appeals to all houscholders who can
to eliminate entirely the use of wheat
until the next harvest. Meats of any
/ kind may bc eaten on any day in mod
Grafton until May lst. The need of the
economical use of all foods and the de
/ STABILITY of growing and using local
4 supplies are emphasized.
In connection with sending out this
Ircw program the federal food admin
i~tration for Vermont announces that
There will bc placed in the state CAPT
'ol - Montpelier an honor roll of the
names OF all those housewives who in
form the food administration that they
viii make their tables 100 per cent
wheatlcss until the next harvest.
The new program OF food conserva-
tion is as follows:
All hoUSeholders who can entirely
eliminate the use of wheat until the
nest harvest, about September 1st,
should do so.
Householders who are obliged to use
wheat should not use more than a total
Of IL pounds of wheat -four or pre-.
pared wheat, in any form. per person
per week, including the wheat -four In
Victory Bread, and including the wheat
-four or prepared wheat in crackers
pastry. macaroui. breakfast and other
foods
Ina estimating flour consumption ev-
cry ] g, pounds of Victory Bread, which
lis bread manufactured by bakers I'M.
der the Regulations OF the United
States Food Administration, may be
considered equal to one pound OF
wheat flour.
This rgtionjug requires a more re.
istricted use of wheat than that asked
for by the observance of whcatles,
days and meals, which are no Longer
Obligatory. but in practice it will be
found that an even wider and NOR,
restricted observance of wheatless day.
e and meals will aid greatly in limiting
the household consumption of wheat
flour and other prepared wheat to J..
pounds per person per week.
Meat of any kind may be eaten on
any day in moderation until May LIST
In buying wheat -four an eaua
weight Of other cereals as substitute
for wheat flour must be bought poun(
for pound. In buying graham, whole
wheat or mixed lours the substitute
= IN them may be counted so that a small
or proportion Of substitutes may b,
/ bought with these fours than will
wheat flour. This is the $3.50 rule.
. Wheat flour substitutes are hominy
p corn grts, cornmeal, corn flour, edibl
corn starch, barley. rolled oats, oatmeal
$ rice, rice -four buckwheat flour, potat
1 Hour, sweet potato flour, soya beaI
u flour and fcterita -four and meals.
j. iouScholderS in towns and cities ma,
Is not buy more than 4 of a barrel O
Hour at any time Ilouseholders in tn
country may not buy more than u o
q barrel of flour at any one time. 1
no event shall any purchaser have nor
s than 30 days supply on hand
!. MI kinds of food, especially whea
|. meats, fats and sugar, should he ecc
aouicalIy used
Grow and use local supplies; thi
= saves transportation.
These regulations are necessarily sui
\ lcct to change at any Time as the need
! OF our allies and our own needs d.
= mand.