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MWtary Necessity Demands That
Each American Eat Only V/2
Pounds Wheat Products
Weekly.
nerioan Women Volunteer to
Buy Fixed Amounts of Meat,
Bread Flour, Sugar
and Butter.
Thousands of Retail Grocers Sup­ European Shortage Places Prob­
port Food Administration
lem Before American Govern­
Rules.
ment— Farsighted Policy
Adopted.
SIGN PLEDGE VOLUNTARILY.
NEED 75,000,000 BU. WHEAT.
CORN AND OATS SUBSTITUTES. P U N STARTED IN NEW YORK.
N fw W hM t Saving Program Demand­
ad — Allied Food Shortage I»-
Idea Supplemento U. S. Food Admlnla-
tration’a New Home Card Now
in 10,000,000 H¿mea.
H we are to, furnish the allies with
the necessary proportion o f wheat to
ssalntsla their war bread from now
nntll the next harvest, and this is a
military necessity, we must reduce our
nseothly consumption to 21 , 000,000
hgphels a month as against our nor­
mal consumption o f about 42,000,000
bushels, or 50 per cent o f our normal
consumption. This is the situation as
set forth by the U. 8 . Food Adminis­
tration at Washington. Reserving a
margin for distribution to the army
and for special cases, leaves for geo-
oral consumption approximately 1 %
pounds o f wheat products weekly per
person, the Food Administration's
statement continues: Many o f oar
consumers are dependent upon bakers'
bread. Such bread must be durable
and therefore requires a larger propor­
tion o f wheat products than cereal
breads baked in the household. Our
army and navy require a full allow­
ance. The well-to-do in our population
can make greater sacrifices la the con­
sumption o f wheat products than can
the poor. In addition, our population
in the agricultural districts, where the
ether cereals gfp abundant, are more
skilled in the preparation o f breads
from these other cereals than the
crowded city and industrial popula-
With Improved transportation condl-
tteao wo now have available a surplus
o f potatoes. Wo also have In too
spring months a surplus o f milk, and
wo have.ample corn and oats tor hu­
man consumption. The drain on rye
and barley as substitutes has already
greatly exhausted the gupply o f these
T o effect the naeded saving o f wheat
wo are wholly dependent upon the
voluntary assistance o f the American
people and wo ask that the following
rules shall be observed:
L Householders to use not to exceed
a total o f 114 pounds per
wheat products per person.
This
means not more than 1 % pounds o f
▼lctory bread containing the required
percentage o f substitutes and one-half
pound o f cooking flour, macaroni,
crackers, pastry, plea, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, all combined.
2, Public eating places and clubo to
observe two wheatless days per week,
Monday and Wednesday, as at present
la addition thereto, not to serve to
any one guest at any one meal an
aggregate o f breadstuff*, macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, containing a total
o f more than two ounces o f wheat
flour. No wheat products to be served
unless specially ordered. Public eat­
ing establishment* not to buy more
than six pounds o f wheat products for
each ninety meals served, thus con­
forming with the limitations requested
o f the householders.
8 . Retailers to sell not more than
one-eighth o f a barrel o f flour to any
town customer at any one time and
not more than one-quarter o f a barrel
to any country customer at any one
time, and in no case to sell wheat
products without the sale o f an equal
weight o f other cereal*.
4. W e ask the bakers and grocers to
reduce the volume o f Victory broad
sold, by delivery of the three-quarter
pound loaf where one pound was sold
before, and corn?*ponding proportions
in other weights. W e also ask bakers
not to lucres*«? the amount o f their
wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per
cent, o f the average monthly amount
purchased In the four months prior to
March L
*
5. Manufacturers using wheat prod­
ucts for non-food purposes should
cease such use entirely.
& There la no limit upon the ase of
other cereals, flours, and meals, corn,
barley, buckwheat, potato flour, et
cetera.
Many thousand families throughout
the land are (iow using no wheat prod­
ucts whatever, except a very small
amount for cooking purposes, and are
doing so in perfect health and satisfac­
tion. There Is no reason why ail of
the American people who are able to
cook In their own households cannot
subsist perfectly well with the use of
less wheat products than one and one-
half pounds a week, and we specially
ask the well-to-do households In the
country to follow this additional pro­
gramme In order that we may provide
the necessary marginal supplies for
those parts o f the community less able
to adapt themselves to so large a pro­
portion of subatltutea.
lg- order that we shall be able to
make the wheat exports that are ab­
solutely demanded o f u* to maintain
the civil population and soldiers o f the
allies nnd our own army, we propose
to supplement the voluntary co-opera­
tion of the public by a further limits
tlon o f distribution, and we shnll place
at once restrictions on distribution
which will be adjusted from time to
time to secure ss nearly equitable dls
trtbutlon as possible. With the arrival
o f harvest we should be able to relax
such restrictions- Until then we ask
for the n>f»story patience, sacrifice
pnd co-operation at the distributing
trades.
Atiu/rZkrts ir/bxiwmt
Feed Fighters.
HUN Hht German* re-
The women o f America, who are
treated from long held
anxious to do their great part in the
poaitiona In Northern
winning o f the war, are now, as u
Prance they girdled ev-
ery fruit tree that time
whole, familiar with the moat Impor
permitted.
H e r e Is
lanf aspects of food conservation. The
■uch a tree, hacked be­
Home Card, both in its original form
yond chance o f the
und in the revised edition for 1918.
tree’s surviving unless
which provides for two wbeatiess days,
first aid measures were
one meatless day a week, in addition
quickly adopted. In many cases the
to a wheatless meal every day, has been
advancing .French troops brought the
placed by the Food Administration aft - 1
first aid material and sometimes suc­
er a vigorous campaign in 10 , 000,000
ceeded in saving the trees. Where the
American homes. An intelligent and
tree was absolutely cut down— as hun­
conscientious observance o f the Home
dreds were— there was, o f course, no
Card's requirements is all the Pood
relief measure to employ. Members
Administration asks o f the housewives
o
f the U. 8 . Pood Administration
o f the country.
brought this picture to America. Ear­
The Pood Administration baa had a ly in the war the German govern­
great many requests, however, partlcu- j ment introduced a policy o f strict
lariy from the homos o f the well-to-do, food conservation at home and has
that It should Issue a worked out plan , endeavored _to curtail In every possi­
for a voluntary system o f rationing.
ble manner the Prench and English
America is today the great larder of
This desire fe r a-voluntary ration supply. D boat warfare and destruc­ the allied nations Out o f our food
springe from two causae first, be­ tion o f farming property are parts o f stocks we must save enough to feed
cause It ia far simpler fe r the house­ the same campaign.
our European associates in this war.
w ife to save food when ehe has a con­
crete working plan
which to pro- :
coed, and, second, because the loyal '
women o f America desire, unselfishly, :
Wars cannot be f«tight without money, and upon the Treasury centers
to put them selves on the same basis
every financial demand upon the Nation.
as the women o f the Allied countries.
The rich o f this country cannot alone meet the needs o f the Nation;
The ration proposed by the Food Ad­
the men o f the country cannot do It alone; the women of the country
ministration is almost the same as '
cannot do It alone; but all o f us, the people o f the United States, disre­
that adopted In England fe r voluntary !
garding partisanship, forgetting selfish Interests, thinking only of the
observance. All over the United King­
supremacy of right and determining to vindicate the majesty of American
dom, in hundreds o f houses there
Ideals and secure the safety i f America and civilization, can do the great
hangs In the front window a card with
and splendid work which Qod has called upon us to do.
the stirring pledge, " IN
HONOR I
BOUND ~WE AD O PT TH E NATION- '
W. G. McADOO,
A L SCALE OF V O LU N T A R Y RA-
t
EVERYONE MUST HELP.
The ration recommended by the
Food Administration, and adopted first
in Now York city, whence the Idea has
aproad through the entire oountry, Is
the following:
—
Weekly
Allowance
Meat— Beef (fresh, salted, tin­
ned and hashed); mutton,
lamb and veal (mutton by
preference) ......................... 2*4 Iba
Butter
................................. *4
Cooking Fate (margarine, lard,
lard substitutes, vegetable
oils) ..................... .............
*4 lb.
Wheat Flour (fo r use In cook­
ing gravies, etc., where
* com starch, cracker dust
or broad crumbs cannot be
substituted) .....................
*4
Victory Bread (containing at
least 20 per cent o f a sub­
stitute for wheat flour). . . . 1 % Iba
tugar (Including all sugar
used on the table
in
cooking and ail sweat meats
and candles, but not that
used for canning and pre­
serving) .............................. % lb.
The Items listed above are the only
ones which are definitely limited. In
the case o f milk and cream, as much
may be used as necessary, and chil­
dren, o f course, must have their full
allowance o f whole milk. Fish and
poultry, any cereal other than wheaL
vegetables and fruits and cheese may
be used as freely as Is desired.
The above ration Is in no wise In­
tended to supplant the Home Card,
but rather to supplement I t It has
been published with the idea that It
will be a very real aid to the Ameri­
can woman In her splendid effort to
carry out the great food conservation
program.
USE MORE POTATOES.
EI.P consume the
1017 record break
I
Ing potato crop.
G o v e r n m e n t ex-
perta have esti­
mated that over 700,000 extra
acres o f potatoes were planted
last year. The United States
Food Administration Is endeavor­
ing to pnsh the nation's big po­
tato stocks Into channels o f
trade and has placed potatoes
on the list o f substitutes that
may be bought along with wheat
flour.
Potato soup has become a war
dish. Here la a recipe that has
been tested by United States
Food Administration experts. In­
gredients needed are three pota­
toes, one quart o f milk, two
slices onion, three tablespoons
butter substitute, two table­
spoons floor, one and one-half
tablespoons
salt,
one-quarter
teaspoon celery salL one-eighth
teaspoon pepper, few grains cay­
enne and one teaspoon chopped
parsley.
Cook potatoes in boiled salted
water. When soft run through
a strainer. Scald milk with on­
ion, remove onion and add milk
■lowly to potatoes. Melt the tot,
add dry Ingredients, stir until
wall mixed, then stir Into boiling
soup. Cook one minute, strain
and sprinkle with barley.
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■ Explaining the United States Food
Administration’s new 50-50 wheat reg­
ulations is a war time task the Ameri­
can grocer has gladly shouldered.
Many stores are already displaying
their Food Administration wheat sav­
ing pledge cards, that they have sign­
ed, agreeing to carry out the new
wheat program.
Each flour customer is now requir­
ed to buy one pound o f cereal substi­
tute for every pound o f wheat flour.
The substitute may be o f one kind or
assorted. This 50-50 sale ia made by
weight and not by value o f the com­
modities./ There is, o f course, no reg­
ulation demanding the consumer to
buy wheat flour at alL
A wide variety o f substitutes has
been provided: Cora meal, corn floor,
edible cornstarch, hominy, corn grits,
barley flour, potato flour, sweet potato
flour, soya bean flour, Feterita flour
and meals, rice, rice flour, oatmeal,
rolled oats and buckwheat flour.
Graham and whole wheat flour con­
stitute an exception to the national
regulation. Either o f these commodi­
ties may be sold at the ratio o f throe
pounds to five pounds o f wheat floor—
that is, five pounds o f graham os
wheat flour counts the same as three
pounds o f the usual wheat flour.
. Mixed flours form another excep­
tion. Where any flour contains 60
per cent or less o f wheat it may be
sold without any substitutes. Where
the flour is mixed at the rate o f 00
per cent wheat and 40 per cent o f
other Ingredients an additional 20 per
cent o f substitutes must be purchased
by the consumer.
Where necessity is shown specially
prepared Infant's and invalid's food
containing flour may be sold.
That the approved substitutes may
be assorted Is a fact many grocers
and housewives overlooked for a tim e
For Instance, if a customer wishes to
buy a 24 pound sack o f flour the nec­
essary" substitutes might be assorted
as follows: Cora meal, 8 pounds; corn
grits. 4 pounds; rice. 4 pounds; buck­
wheat, 2 pounds: cornstarch, 1 pound;
hominy, 2 pounds; rolled oats, 8
pounds.
None o f the substitutes should be
considered as a waste purchase.
There are many household uses for
each. The eight pounds of* corameal
can be made Into cornbread, corn muf­
fins or used in the baking o f wheat
bread.
Cornstarch is useful in making cus­
tard, thickening gravy or may be used
in cake baking. Corn grits fried like
mush forms a delicious dish, or It may
be used in baking corn bread. Rolled
oats are used largely as breakfast por­
ridge or In oatmeal cookies or in
making muffins.
Buckwheat flour may be used In
bread making, forming an excellent
substitute for one-quarter o f the
wheat flour, hut Is especially choice in
the form o f buckwheat cakes for
breakfast
With 11 wheatless meals needed
each week in America to provide
enough wheat for the allies, the Food
Administration believes the substitutes
will all be used to advantage.
ïïghters
f U N I T E D S T A T E S F O O D A D M IN IS T R A T IO N
Plant aWar Garden; Help Win CAeWar,
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planted this year In greeter numbers than ever before. Each
American family that haa a garden plot la being urged to
become more nearly self-sustaining by making use of i t This
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will render a national service by lessening the burdens on onr
railroads. Fewer carloads o f food hauled about the country
means more cars o f monitions and food sent t< seaboard for
the Allies. r
The United States Department oi Agriculture anu State
Agricultural Colleges have prtated leaflets of Instructions for
gardeuers which will be sent upon request without charge.
It was only daring the last winter that government experts wsre able to
kaow definitely how great was the aid of 1017 war gardens. In many sections
th# potatoes and other vegetables raised enabled the people to escape a
threatened famine in certain commodities that were held up on account of
tba railroad transportation crisis. Approximately 8,000,000 war gardens wtre
nted la IIMT - ssany were failu res: hut the gardener now knows more shout
sing vegetables and will do better In 1918.
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W
T
The allied nations have made
further Increased demands on
us for breadstuffs — demands
that Americans are obligated to
meet
In th¿ meantime America’s
meat supply has been greatly
Increase«] for some months to
come by the unprecedented
shipping to market o f hogs that
averaged 232 pounds each In­
stead o f 203 pounds— the nor­
mal.
The United States Food Ad­
ministration. endeavoring to ad­
just the International food bal­
ance, promptly removed certain
restrictions In this country on
the use of meat and at the same
time asked for a smaller con­
sumption of breadstuffs.
We are asked to observe only
one meatless day each week—
Tuesday. We will have,, larger
meat stocks for awhile.
But
our bread ration must be held
to a minimum.
«
In altering Ita food conserva-
uon program the Food Admin­
istration emphasises that the
food situation Is o f necessity,
subject
to* radical
changes,
caused by crop conditions at
home and abroad and by the
precarious transportation prob­
lem, both In overseas shipping
and In America's overburdened
transportation system.
The Food Administration will
keep the American people fully
and frankly advised of each
changa la the developing situa­
tion that they may know defi­
nitely the part their food sac­
rifices play In the world war.
Every American in Oigan tie
Task o f Feeding Millions.
It Is the food problem over there
that makes a food problem over hero.
I f we wished to be supremely selfish—
and supremely shortsighted— we could
g o on eating as much as we like and
whatever we like, without much diffi­
culty or Interruption— at least, un%l
the Germans camel
But we are not doing things In that
selfish and suicidal way. We are try­
ing to make a great common pool o f
all o f our food, and all o f the food e t
the allies, and all o f the food we can
get from South American and other
neutrals, and dividing it up fairly
among America, England, France, Bat-
This does not mean that all o f the
people in the great pool are going to
have the same ration, but means that
w e-.are trying to arrange to have
enough for everybody, so that the sol­
diers— our soldiers and their soldiers—
w ill be well fed, as they have to be