Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1918 — OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS

By Dr. Harry E.

As a temporary arrangement, the Federal Fo d Administration has announced a new wheat flour regulation. V. iien the far.,:c.’ brings to the mill v. n cat "grown ■ fey himself, the miller Is. privileged to deliver to him, on a toll or exchange basis, without any substitutes, eight pounds per month per capita allowance of wheat flour, upon his certifying that the wheat was grown/ by himself, and that the amount of flour to" be delivered to him at that time, with the amount on hand, will not give him a supply more than sufficient to meet the requirements of his household, or establishment, the number thereof being stated, and pledging thdC he will not sell, loan or deliver any of the flour to anyone else, nor permit its use except for such human consumption as indicated. This exchange basis is extended to elevators and mills.

For selling sugar at 11 cents a pound, which the Federal Food Administration regards as profiteering. Henry Shultz, a grocer of Cooley, Indiana, which is near Gary, has been deprived of the privilege of selling sugar until the end of the war. ./-*■ A. R. Powell, who operates two groceries at Linton, was found guilty of having misrepresented the amount of sugar on hand July 1, and was deprived of the privilege of selling sugar until October 1. Powell made an affidavit that he had 1,000 pounds of sugar on hand and an investigation disclosed 5,560. pounds. Any grocer found violating the regulations for Sunday closing, will have his supplies cut off. Grocers can not violate the food regulations and expect to get any of the licensed commodities from the Food Administration. Manifestly, it is unfair to those obeying the regulations to have a certain few disregarding them, and we mean to see that this rule is strictly complied with. No sugar will be permitted for use in the making of vinegar. Throughout the rural districts particularly, various kinds of vinegar are made by householders in which sugar has been

Barnard,

Federal Food Administrator for Indiana

one of the ingredients, but from this time no such use of sugar be permitted. Threshing and buying of damp wheat is absolutely contrary to the desires and purposes of the Food Administration, and is contrary to the principles of food conservation. Whea; should not be threshed or purchased containing over 14 per cent, moisture. Dealers who purchase damp wheat and permit it to get out of condition will be considered guilty of contributing to the destruction of foodstuffs. It will be considered an unfair practive for buyers of wheat to place, intentionally, a lower grade on wheat than that to which it is entitled under the federal standard. Protests have been received by the Food Administration and by the State Council of Defense, that bßyers In some instances, were endeavoring to buy wheat below its real value through an inferior grading. The U. 8. Grain Corporation says it will not be an unfair practice to pay the basic No. 1 price on wheat even it the wheat grades lower. Conviction tor unfair practice carries a penalty of forfeiture of license, which means elimination from business, and all such ati tempts to deprive the wheat grower of the price to which he is honestly entitled uflder the regulations should be reported at once.

Except that Victory bread may contain 75 pounds of wheat flour, 20 pounds of substitutes and 5 pounds of rye flour, which liatter permission is intended to take care of stocks of rye carried over from last year's harvest and where new rye is coming in, the substitute regulations as applied to the baking industry remain unchanged. Restrictions as to the use of animal fats by bakers, have been eliminated, except that they are to be used economically. Butter held by any food licensee must be sold without regard to existing market or replacement value at not more than a reasonable advance over cost. JThe Food Administration prohibits speculation in butter.