GROCERS HELP
IN 50-50 PLAN
SIGN PLEDGE TO CARRY OUT
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
PROGRAM.
POST CARDS IN STORES.
Explain New Wheat Ruling to
Thousands of Customers—ln
sures Greater Food Saving.
Grocers of the nation have accepted
enthusiastically the 50-50 basis for the
purchase of wheat flour and ard doing
their utmost to explain the new regu
lation to the housewife. This ruling by
the U. S. Food Administration requires
each purchaser of wheat flour to buy
one pound of cereal substitute, one
kind or assorted, for every pound of
wheat flour. It was necessary to re
strict the use of wheat flour In order
that the allies and our fighting forces
abroad might be assured of an ade
quate supply of wheat to meet their
vital needs. This supply must come
from o\ir savings because we have al
ready sent our normal surplus.
Wheat saving pledge cards were for
warded by the Food Administration to
all retail food merchants, and these
are being signed and posted in stores
throughout the country. This card
states, "We pledge ourselves loyally to
carry out the Food Administration pro
gram. In accordance with this order
we will not sell any wheat flour except
where the purchaser buys an equal
weight of one or more of the following,
a greater use of which in the home
will save wheat:
"Cornmeal, corn flour, edible corn
starch, hominy, corn grits, barley flour,
potato flour, sweet potato flour, soy
bean flour, feterita flour and meals,
rice, rice flour, oatmeal, rolled oats and
buckwheat flour."
Some confusion has resulted on the
part of the consumer In construing
this "50-50" ruling to mean that an
equal amount in value of substitutes
must be purchased with wheat flour.
This Is a mistaken idea. The ruling
states that the consumer in purchasing
flour shall "buy at the same time an
equal weight of other cereals."
One exception to this ruling is con
cerning graham flour and whole wheat
flour, which may be sold at the ratio
of three pounds to five pounds of
wheat flour. This provision is made
because approximately 25 per cent
more of the wheat berry is used in the
manufacture of these flours than stand
ard wheat flour.
Another exception is that concern
ing mixed flours containing less than
50 per cent, of wheat flour, which may
be sold without substitutes. Retailers,
however, are forbidden to sell mixed
flours containing more than 50 per
cent, of wheat flour to any person un
less the amount of wheat flour substi
tutes sold is sufficient to make the to
tal amount of substitutes, including
those mixed In flours, equal to the to
tal amount in wheat flour in the mixed
flour. For instance, if any mixed flour
Is purchased containing GO per cent
wheat flour and 40 per cent, substi
tutes It Is necessary that an additional
. 20 per cent of substitutes be pur
chased. This brings It to the basis of
one pound of substitutes for each
pound of wheat flour.
A special exemption may be granted
upon application in the case of special
ly prepared infants' atid invalids' food
containing flour where the necessity is
shown.
Some misunderstanding seems to ex
ist on the part of consumers in assum
ing that with the purchase of wheat
flour one must confine the additional
50 per cent purchase to one of the
substitutes. This is not the case. One
may select from the entire range of
substitutes a sufficient amount of each
to bring the total weight of all substi
tutes equal to the weight of the wheat
flour purchased. For instance, a
purchase of 24 pounds of wheat flour
is made a range of substitutes may be
selected as follows:
Cornmeal, 8 pounds: corn grits, 4
pounds; rice, 4 pounds; buckwheat, 2
pounds: corn starch, 1 pound; hominy,
2 pounds; rolled oats, 3 pounds.
These substitutes may be used in
the following manner:
Cornmeal. S Pounds. —Corn bread, no
flour: corn muffins or spoon bread,
one-fourth flour or one-third rice or
one-third hominy; 20 per cent, substi
tutes in whole bread.
Corn Starch, 1 Pojtnd. —Thickening
gravy, making custard, one-third sub
stitute in cake. N
Corn Grits, 4 Pounds. —Fried like
mush, used with meal in making corn
bread.
Rolled Oats, 3 Pounds. —One-fourth
to one-third substitutes in bread, one
half substitute in muffins; breakfast
porridge, use freely; oatmeal cookies,
oatmeal soup
Buckwheat Flour, 2 Pounds. —One-
fourth substitute in bread, buckwheat
cakes.
Hominy, 2 Pounds. —Boiled for din
ner. baked for dinner, with cheese
sauce.
Rice, 4 Pounds.—One-fourth substi
tute In wheat bread, one-third substi
tute in corn bread, boiled for dinner (a
bread cut), as a breakfast food, to
thicken soups, rice pudding instead of
cake or pie, rice batter cakes.
Several grocers have stated that
their customers who strictly observe
the 11 wheat less meals each week find
it necessarj to buv substitutes in ad
dition to those ordered under the 50-
50 plan.
ALLIES DEMAND
MORE CEREALS
American Meat Restrictions Re
laxed to Effect Greater
Wheat Savings,
ARGENTINE ARRIVALS SHORT.
Meat Supply Here Considerably En
larged Food Administration,
However, Warns Against
Waste.
The allies have made further and
Increased demands for breadstuffs,
these enlarged demands being caused
to some degree by shortage in arrivals
from the Argentine. It is, therefore,
necessary for the U. S. Food Adminis
tration to urge a still further reduction
in the consumption of bread and bread
stuffs generally if we are to meet our
export necessities. The Food Admin
istration has issued a statement ex
plaining the situation in detail, partic
ularly the reasons which lend it, for
the purpose of centering effort for the
time being upon the cereal situation
to relax temporarily the restrictions on
meat consumption.
Experience shows, this statement
says, that the consumption of bread
stuffs is intimately associated with the
consumption of meat. For various
reasons our (Supplies of meat for the
next two or three months are consid
erably enlarged, and we can supply the
allies with all of the meat products
which transportation facilities render
possible and at the same time some
what increase our own consumption.
In these circumstances the Food Ad
ministration considers it wise to relax
the voluntary restrictions on meat con
sumption to some extent with a view
to further decreasing bread consump
tion.
Conservation of food must be ad-
Justed to meet necessities from time to
time, for neither production, nor al
lied demands are constant factors, nor
can any of these factors be anticipated
for long periods in advance in the dis
turbed conditions in which we at pres
ent live. While the world situation Is
not one that warrants any relaxation
in the efforts to eliminate waste or to
relax economy in food, the Adminis
tration desires to secure better adjust
ment in food balances.
So long as the present conditions
continue the only special restrictions
we ask are the beefless and porkless
Tuesday.
The meatless meal and the porkless
Saturday are no longer asked.
The farmers of the United States
are responding to the national call to
Increase hog production. Their In
crease, to all appearances, is being at
tained more rapidly. Of more imme
diate importance, however, are several
complex factors which have effected
an immediate increase in meat sup
plies.
The transportation shortage before
the government took over the rail
roads, the bad weather in January and
early in February, the large percent
age of immature corn in the last har
vest and the necessity of feeding this
corn as rapidly as possible to save It
from decay, have not only resulted in
backing up the animals —particularly
hogs—on the farms for a longer pe
riod of feeding, but have resulted In a
great increase in their average weight
and will result, with improved trans
portation conditions, which already ap
pear, in larger than normal arrivals at
market for the next two or three
months. The weight of hogs coming
to the market for the past twp weeks
indicates an increase in weight of
from an average of 203 pounds last
year to the almost unprecedented
average of 252 pounds, or a net in
crease in their meat value of over 15
per cent This is a distinct addition
to the nation's meat supply. It there
fore now seems certain that we have
such enlarged supplies for at least
some months to come, that we can not
only increase our exports to the allies
to the full extent of their transporta
tion facilities, but at the same time
can properly Increase our • domestic
consumption.
The response of the public to our re
quests for reduced consumption of
meat during the past few months has
been most gratifying, and this service
alone has enabled the government dur
ing this period to provide such sup
plies as transportation to the allies
permitted.
The Administration also suggests
that In those parts of the country
where the old fashioned home preser
vation of pork is still the custom, this
practice should be extended at the
present time, as it will relieve the bur
den upon transportation to and from
the packing houses and is economical
ly sound as saving the cost of packing
operations and at the same time will
provide home supplies of pork to last
over the months of decreased supplies.
The Food Administration desires to
repeat that it does not want to give
the Impression that these are times
when simplicity and moderation of liv
ing are not critically necessary, but
that its sole desire is to secure an ad
justment between our different food
supplies and meet changing conditions
from time to time and to keep the pub
lie fully and frankly advised of its
position with the full confidence and
reliance that whenever It becomes nec
essary renewal appeals for saving will
met. the same loyal response as In the
oust.
! FARMER CHOSEN
EXPERT ADVISOR!
— ~'"
G. J. Tyson, of Pennsylvania,
Named For National Post.
HONOR FOR KEYSTONE STATE I
C. J. TYSON.
Philadelphia, March 26. —C. J. Ty
son, one of the representatives of
the farmers in the United States Food
Administration for Pennsylvania, has
been appointed a member of the Ad
visory Board, selected by the Secre
tary of Agriculture and the United
States Food Administrator, Herbert
Hoover, to represent the producing in
terests of the nation, in the matter of
increasing the supply of live stock,
fruits and vegetables.
This Advisory Board will be called
into conference by the two depart
ments from time to time to discuss
national agricultural problems. The
first meeting will be held in the of
fice of the Secretary of Agriculture, in
Washington, March 28th.
The membership has been selected
with reference not only to the larg
er agricultural interests, but ailso to
geographical consideration. The full
membership of the committee follows:
E. S. Brigham, St. Albans, Vt
C. J. Tyson, Flora Dale, Pa.
Henry C. Stuart, Elk Garden, Va.
David P. Massie, Chillicothe, O.
D. O. Mahoney, Viroqua, Wis.
F. J. Hagenbarth, Spencer, Idaho.
Isaac Lincoln, Aberdeen, S. D.
W. G. Gordon, Humboldt, Tenn.
H. W. Jeffers, Plainsboro, N. J.
Milo D. Campbell, Coldwater, Mich.
George C. Roeding, Fresno, Cal.
C. W. Hunt, Logan, la.
William F. Pratt, Batavia, N. Y.
David R- Coker, Harteville, S. C.
C. S. Barrett, Union City, Ga.
Oliver Wilson, Peoria, 111.
M-arion Sansom, Fort Worth, Texa3.
N. H. Gentry, Sedalia, Mo.
J. N. Hagan, Bismarck, N. D.
W. L. Brown, Kingman, Kan.
Eugene Funk, Bloomington, 111.
W. W. Harrah, Pendleton, Ore.
W. -R. Dodson, Baton, Rouge, La.
John Grattan, Golden, Colo.
Howard Heinz, U. S. Administrator,
and other officers of the Pennsylvania
Food Administration expressed gratifi
cation at the selection of Mr. Tyson as
constituting a tribute to the efficiency
of the State Administration, a recogni
tion of the farmers of Pennsylvania,
and a high compliment to the scien
tific skill and attainments of Mr. Ty
son himself.
Mr. Tyson was born on the farm
where he still lives, at Flora Dale,
Adams eounty, Pa., September 4, 1877.
He was educated in the public
schools, at the George School, near
Newtown, Pa., and at Swarthmore
College. He operates one of the
largest apple orchards in Pennsylva
nia, which is owned jointly by him
self and two brothers. He lias also
about 200 acres in general farm crops.
Mr. Tyson served seven years as
secretary and later as president of
the State Horticultural Association
of Pennsylvania, and he is now chair
man of its legi3iatuve committee. He
is a trustee of Pennsylvania State j
College to the advisory committee of i
its School of Agriculture, and of the i
standing committee in charge of agri
culture extension.
He has been since 1912, Pomologist ]
of- the Pennsylvania State Board of
Agriculture, and he Is a member of
the committee in charge of the Penn
sylvania Agriculture Products Show
for the years 1917-1918. He is a mem
ber of the State Chamber of Com
merce, and of its Board of Directors.
WHEAT RETURN IS HIGH
Interesting Figures For Farmers From
Food Statisticians.
Washington, March 26. —Dr. Ray
mond Pearl, statistician of the United
States food administration, says that
the American farmer still receives a
higher return per bushel from wheat
than from any other cereal crop.
Dr. Pearl, taking his information
from the published reports of the
United States agricultural depart
ment finds that the average price re
ceived by the farmer for for
the three years before the war was
86 9-10 cents a bushel. He receives
now $2,006 a bushel, a percentage in
crease of 181.
Corn comes next with a percentage
increase of 109 and oats arl b*r'ey
are tied with a percentage increase of
105. f f U UH Iti 111 '|"l"4
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