Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-08
EXPLANATION OF
THE FOOD ORDER

LEAR DIV + DIE Ill 1CCCIpl VI
your recent favor which is answer
ed by the following statement with
regard to the new order of the Food
Administration which forbids the
selling of wheat flour except in
combination with an equal quantity
of other cereals, and to the rulings
on maximum prices that may be
charged for flour and sugar, and
maximum quantities of these pro-
ducts may be sold:
(1) All retailers are forbidden to
sell wheat flour except in combina.
ton, pound for pound, with other
cereals as follows corn meal. corn
-four. edible corn starch, hominy
grits, oat meal, rolled oats, buck
wheat flour, rice, rice flour, edible
wheat shorts o. lniddlings. Ool III o4l
potato flour, sW eet potato flour, cot
tOnsccd flour milo, kaalir, and feter-
tia fOurs and meal, coy lei flour
peanut flour, casava II. II, taro flour
banana flour, and other products of
a similar nature. This meas that
for each pound of flour you sell to
a consumer you must sell one
pound of the other cereals named.
(2) The dealer may sell one
pound of whole wheat in combina-
ton with one half pound of other
cereal substitutes as the whole
wheat -four contains Is per cent Of
wheat middlings and bran.
(D The retailer is required to
distribute the flour he receives as
equitably as possible among his
customers so that no customer shall
receive more than his fair share.
The dealer must sell not more than
"a to 48 pounds of flour at one
time to any customer in a town or
city; nor more than 48 to SO pounds
to consumer in the country.
(4) Because of the necessity and
desirability of selling smaller guam
titles of flour as a result of the new
ruling regarding combination sales,
our recent ruling fixing the maxi
mum price of flour at $3.50 per
barrel is hereby revoked and mer-
chants are authorized to charge
their usual profits up to 1c pound
on flour in quantities of "a pounds
or less.
(5) Sugar must not be sold in
quantities in excess of five pounds
to a customer living in a town or
city and ten pounds to a customer
living in the country. The maxi
mum price at which sugar may be
sold is 10c a pound. Where retail
ers can show to their County Food
Administrators that they have paid
more than &c pound for sugar de
livered their County Food Admins
traitors are authorized to grant
them an exception to this ruling to
the extent of allowing them to sell
at such a price as will give them
their normal profit up to 1c a pound.
In the first place, the flour mills
can sell flour to wholesalers or re-
tailers only when such dealers salts
fly them that they have purchased
an equal amount of cereal substi-
tutes elsewhere.
In turn, the wholesaler must sell
flour to retailers only in cOmbina-
ton with an equal amount of cereal
substitutes, except when the retail
er satisfies him that he has balanced
the desired purchase of -four by 6
similar quantity of cereal substitutes
from other sources.
This means that the retailers
must purchase from one source or
another pound of cereal substi
tutes for every pound of flour.
Since there is normally a larger de
mand for flour than for all other
cereals combined the retailer as q
matter of business policy, aside
from his desire to observe the law
must refuse to sell flour to any
consumer except in combination
with other cereals.
The Food Administration has no
objections to merchants making a
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