The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-13
LATEST FOOD RULES
FOR REAL PATRIOTS
General Compilation Prepared
for Guidance of Americans
Who Are Patriots.

For the guidance of ~householders,
the United States Food Administra-
ton has sent out from the New Jersey
offices in Newark a compilation of the
food regulations pertaining to house
holders as they stand at present. There
are more rigid details which relate TO
the wholesale and retail handling OF
commodities.
The rules for ~householders are now
substantially as follows:
All kinds of food, especially wheat,
meats, fats and sugar, should be eco
nomically used.
No food shall be boarded. Hoardlng
is the holding, contracting or arrang-
ing for food by any person in excess
of his reasonable requirements for use
or consumption by himself ana oe-
pendents for a reasonable time. Inns
does not refer to stocks of home grown
vegetables and home canned or pre-
served fruits.
All householders who can entirely
eliminate the use of wheat until n
next harvest, about September l,
should do so.
H~ouseholders who are obliged TO use
wheat should not use more than a To-
ia. of ~ pounds of wheat hour Oh
prepared wheat, in any form, per per-
son per week, including the wheat
flour In Victory bread I'M
the wheat flour or prepared wheat IN
crackers. pastry, macaroni, breakfast
and other foods.
Victory bread is bread manufactured
b. bakers under the rules of the U. ..
Food Administrator. In estimating
flour consumption Ia pounds u VIC
tory bread may be considered equal 10
/ 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 2"5Ot50 Rule.
In buying mixed flours, the substitutes
in them may be counted so that a
smaller proportion of substitutes may
be bought with these fours than with
whole white flour. In buying graham
and whole wheat f1ours Containing
not less than 95 per cent. of the entire
wheat) CLIO pounds of substitutes shall
be purchased with every pound OF such
f1ours.
Wheat flour substitutes are hominy,
corn grits. cornmeal, corn flour, edible
corn starch, barley -four, rolled oats,
oatmeal, rice, rice flour, buckwheat
flour. potato flour, sweet potato flour,
soya bean flour and feterita flour and
meals.
Householders in towns and cities
may not buy more than Is of a barrel
of flour or 2 pounds of sugar at any
one time.
Householders in the country may
not buy more than a of a barrel of
flour or 5 pounds of sugar at any
one time. In no event shall any pur-
chaser have more than 30 days supply
of either on hand.
Householders should not use more
than 81 of a 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 signing
a certificate that such sugar desired
will be used only for that purpose.
No wheat flour or prepared wheat
in any form should be used for any
purpose other than human consump-
tion. No wheat fit for human con-
sumption should be used for other pur-
poses.
Meats of all kinds and poultry and
more particularly beef should be most
economically used, eliminating all
waste. Purchases of these products
should be restricted and the quantity
prepared for each meal reduced.
Consumption Of all meats, including
poultry, should be reduced as nearly as
possible to 2 pounds per week per per-
son owe 4 years old. The use of beef
is to be limited to one and a quarter
hounds of clear beef a week per per-
son.
Fresh milk and milk in evaporated
and condensed form and cheese may
be literally used.
Butter may be used for normal con
sumption.
No more ice should be used than is
absolutely necessary.
To save transportation local supplies
should be grown and used.
These regulations are necessarily
subject to change at any time as the
needs of the Allies and our constantly
oroxuinO army In EurODp demand