Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-11
70 CUT WHEAT
USE 0NE-HALF
Military Necessity Demands That
Each American Eat Only 11a
Pounds Wheat Products
Weekly.
CORN AND OATS SUBSTITUTES.
Allies Must Have Wheat Enouuh to
Maintain Their War Bread
Till Next Harvest

If we are TO furnish the allies with
the necessary proportion of wheat to
maintain their war bread from now
until the next harvest, and this is
military necessity, we must reduce our
monthly consumption to 21,000,000
bushels a month as against our nor
NAL consumption of about 42.00O,0O0
bushels, or so per cent. of our normal
consumption. This is the situation as
Set forth by the Z. S. Food Admins
tration at Washington. Reserving a
margin for distribution TO the army
and for special cases, leaves for gen
eral consumption approximately l y
pounds of wheat products weekly per
person, the Food Administration
statement continues: Many of our
consumers are dependent upon bakers
bread. Such bread must he durable
and therefore requires a larger proper
ton of wheat products than cereal
breads baked in the household Our
army and navy require full allow
ance. The well-to-do in our population
can make greater sacrifices in the con-
sumption of wheat products than can
the poor. In addition, our population
in the agricultural districts, where the
other cereals are abundant, are more
skilled in the preparation of breads
from these other cereals than the
crowded city and industrial popula-
tons.
With improved transportation Condi-
tons we now have available a surplus
of potatoes We also have in the
spring months a surplus of milk, and
we have ample corn and oats for hui
man consumption The drain on rye
and barley as substitutes has already
greatly exhausted the supply of these
grains.
To effect the needed saving OF wheat
we are wholly dependent upon the
voluntary assistance of the American
people and we ask that the following
rules shall be observed:
1. HOuSehOlders to use not to exceed
a total of ~ pounds per week of
wheat products per person. This
means not more than ~ pounds of
Victory bread containing the required
percentage of substitutes and one-half
pound of cooking flour, macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, all combined
2. Public eating places and clubs to
observe two wheatless days per week,
Monday and Wednesday, as at present.
In addition thereto, not to serve to
any one guest at any one meal an
aggregate of breadstuffs. macaronf,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, containing a total
of more than two ounces Of wheat
-four No wheat products to be served
unless specially ordered. Public eat
ing establishments not to buy more
than six pounds Of wheat products for
each ninety meals served, thus con-
forming with the limitations requested
of the househOlders.
8. Retailers to sell not more than
one-eighth of a barrel of flour to any
town customer at any one time and
not more than one-Quarter of a barrel
to any country customer at any one
time, and III no case to sell wheat
products without the sale of an equal
weight of other cereals.
4. We ask the bakers and grocers to
reduce the volume of Victory bread
sold, by delivery Of the three-quarter
pound loaf where one pound was sold
before, and corresponding proportions
in other weights. We also ask bakers