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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1919)
New Conservation Program Announced By Food Administrator Herbert Hoover s United States to Go on Same Basis of Flour Consumption as Allies—“so-50” Combination Sale Order Superseded by New Arrangement—2o Per Cent Cereal Substitutes to Be Mixed with Wheat Flour for Use in Homes, Eating-houses, and Bakeries—List of Substitutes Is Curtailed Many Old Rules Revised or Rescinded. United States Food Administrator Herbert Hoover, has made the follow ing announcement: The recent careful survey by the Food Administrators of the United States, France, England, and Italy of the food resources of the two hundred and twenty million people fighting against Germany shows that to maintain enough supplies and ne cessary reserves against disaster, there must be maintained in all coun tries a conservation of wheat flour duripg the coming year. It has been agreed that the wheat bread of the Allies shall contain 20 per cent of other grains than wheat, and it is only just that we should bear our share in this saving, and our bread should be at least universal with those who are suffering more greatly from the war than ourselves. Distribution and transportation cir cumstances in the United States ren der it necessary to rely very largely on voluntary action in our homes to enforce this mixture. The Victory Bread so made is wholesome, and there is no difficulty in preparation. We desire to emphasize the fact that the mixtures outlined below are for wheat bread and the saving of wheat flour, but they are not intended to dis place the large use of corn bread. We must use the mixture with wheat flours in addition to our normal consumption of corn bread. New Rules Promulgated For this purpose, regulations are formulated below, effective September 1, providing: (1) For the preparation and mar keting by the manufacturing and dis tributing trades! of the country of a [mix ed flour complying with the interna tional policy which will be available for purchase by the household. (2) In regulations covering the case where straight wheat flour is sold by retailers that at the same time 20 per cent of other cereal flours must be sold coincidentally. (3) Requiring that all bakers’ bread shall contain 20 per cent of oth er cereals. The Food Administration relies upon the householders of the country to mix at least 20 per cent of substitute ce reals into the wheat flour at home for all uses. Corn meal for use in corn bread should be purchased separately from combination sales. Ready-Mixed Flour For Sale As Vic tory Mixed Flour It is desired to insure a supply of ready-mixed flours on the market and to have millers and dealers of all kinds encourage the use and sale of this flour, so that the country may be on a mixed flour basis without the neces sity of retailers making combination sales of flour and substitutes. All such mixed flours made according to the following regulations should be labeled “Victory Mixed Flour’’ and are to be labeled with the ingredients in order of their proportion. The flours so mixed must be milled in accord ance with the standards of the United States Food Administration. No mix ed flours (except pancake flours) shall be made or manufactured except in the exact proportions as outlined be low : Mixed wheat and barley flour shall be in the proportios of four pounds wheat flour to one pound barley flour. Mixed wheat and corn flour shall contain the proportion of four pounds wheat flour to one pound corn flour, Mixed wheat, barley and corn flour shall contain the proportions of eight pounds wheat flour to one pound bar ley and one pound com flour. Mixed wheat and rye flour shall contain the proportion of three pounds wheat flour and not less than two pounds rye flour. Whole wheat, entire wheat or gra ham flour or meal shall contain at least 95 per cent of the wheat berry. All the above Victory mixed flours may be sold without substitutes, but at no greater price from the miller. I have not lived near so long as some people, but I have lived long enough to see and learn a few things that appearantly older peo ple than I have not yet learned, and one of them is that generally an under-nourished child, a dirty, slouchy woman and a drinking man go together. Thanks to the copper headed monster that is worming so much misery, woe and poverty all over our country today. —Uncle Jeremiah. Prepared bj Federal Food Administration for Georgia wholesaler or retail dealer than in the case of standard wheat flour. Retail Sale of Standard Wheat Flour The new' regulations supersede trie 50-50 rule. The retail dealer selling standard wheat flour is required carry in stock either barley flour, corn meal or corn flour, and with every sale of wheat flour must sell a combi nation of some one or more of these in the proportion of one pound sub stitute to each four pounds of wheat flour. No dealer may force any other substitutes in combination upon the consumer, and these substitutes must conform to the standard fixed by the United States Food Administration. There are some localities where oth er substitutes are available and which retailers may wish to carry in order to meet this situation. The following flours may also be sold in such combi nation in lieu of the above flours if the consumer so demands the ratio of one pound to each four pounds wheat flour: kaffir flour, milo flour, feterita flour and meals, rice flour, oat flour, peanut flour, bean flour, potato flour, sweet potato flour, and buckwheat flour. Pure rye flour or meals may be sold as a substitute, but must be sold in proportion of at least two pounds of rye with three pounds wheat flour. The foregoing rules apply to all cus tom and exchange transactions as well as sales of flour to farmers, unless modified by special order of the Fed eral Food Administrator of the State acting with the approval of the Zone Committee. Bakers’ Regulations In compliance with the general sit uation above, the following alterations are made in rules and regulations governing the baking trade: Rule la. The consumption of wheat flour in bakery products not to exceed 70 per cent of the 1917 consumption is hereby rescinded. Rule 2a. Wheat flour substitutes for bakers remain as heretofore with the exception of rye, which will be a substitute when used upon a basis of not less than 40 per cent, which is two pounds of rye flour to every three pounds of standard wheat flour. When rye is used in this proportion, or a greater proportion, no oth er substitutes are required. If less than this proportion of rye flour is used the difference . between such amount used and 40 per cent must be made up of other substitutes. Rule 6a. Bakers will be required to use one pound of substitutes to each four pounds of wheat flour in all ba kery products, Including bread, except Class 3a crackers, in which only 10 per cent substitutes other than rye are required. The use of the name “Victory” will be allowed in all prod ucts containing the above proportions of substitutes. Revision of Previous Rules The previous rules limiting licenses, millers, wholesalers and retailers and bakers to thirty days supply of flour will be changed to'permit a sixty days supply. The rules limiting sales by retailers of wheat flour to one-eighth of a bar rel in cities and a quarter barrel in sparsely settled districts are rescind ed. The rule limiting the sale of flour by millers to wholesalers, or whole salers to retailers, in combination with substitutes or certificates there for, and the rules restricting the sale to 70 per cent of previous sales are rescinded. Manufacturers of alimentary pastes and wheat breakfast foods are limited to their normal consumption of wheat or wheat flour with the understanding that they are not to unduly expand their ordinary consumption of wheat. Rules prohibiting the starting! of new plants ready ror operation prior to July 1, 1918, are rescinded. Where millers sell directly to con sumers they shall obey same regula tions as retail dealers. A Seventy-Year Old Couple Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Carpenter, Harrisburg, Pa. suffered from kid ney trouble. He says : “My wife and I suffered from kikney trouble and had rheumatic pains through the body. Tn ■ first few doses of Fdlov KMu Pills relieved as and fivH b !v cured us. Al th > •• i i the seventies, us as w° 'vere Til eDon o 11 >. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA gjoin tMlfed Crow WearVour Button _ j 800 WOMEN NEEDED BY SALVATION ARMY Commander Evangeline Booth Says War Relief Work Must Be Extended. Commander Evangeline Booth, lead er of the Salvation Army In the Unit ed States, has been suddenly called «pon to furnish 800 additional war work women for France. The request is contained in a report just received by her from Col. William A. Barker of the Salvationist forces, whom she sent to France over a year ago to es tablish hutment and general war relief work with the American troops. “We will do all we can to All this demand,” said Commander Booth when discussing the approaching United War Work Campaign, “and the need Itself should impress the American public all the more with the absolute necessity for sustaining and enlarging the wnr relief work of the seven or ganizations, besides the noble Red Cross, now merged for a drive for funds. Each is a vital cog in a vast machine for human relief, and each is indispensible, serving its particular elements in its own way. “The Salvation Army was born In hardship, reared in privation and trained to every phase of human mis ery and how to cope with it. Perhaps that accounts in some degree for the success our work has attained and for which we are thankful. “We are of the common people, and we toll on a practical basis. We learn ed the lesson of how to do it in the Boer war, when w f e stood at the side of Britain’s troops and weathered it out to the end. We have been tried by fire, and tfte mothers and fathers of America, as in other countries, trust the Salvation Army to do the thing they would like to do for their men If they but had the chance. “With 1,210 trwiued workers at the front, operating from 420 huts and dugouts, the Salvation Army is doing, has done and will continue to do Its best for the cause of humanity aud Liberty.” “No American May Refuse/’ Cardinal Gibbons Says James Cardinal Gibbons, the lending Catholic churchman in America, has Issued a strong ap peal in support of the United War Work Campaign. “It is an American campaign,” he said. “Its appeal is one that no American may refuse. America’s answer will be another triumphant announcement that we are in this war as one people and as one na tion to see it through to victory. Into, the splendid work of sustain ing the morale of our fighting men the great social organizations of America have thrown themselves. The American people will raise the sum they ask —generously and gladly.” 1000*pound mule for sale cheap for cash or on time. B. B. Car michael. I will buy your remnant seed cotton. R. C. Brown, Locust Grove, Ga. I will buy your remnant sepd cotton. R. C. Brown, Locust Grove, Ga. ■—■ 1 " 1 . 11 .. > 1 - 1 1 1 '™ NOTICE Blackswith shop for rent —in fine locality. H. A. Alexander. MULES! MULES! We have, just in, one car load good Mules fresh from Kentucky and it will pay you to see them Will sell, buy or trade Doc Shaw and E. Z. Carter OLA, GA. Commendable Quality in Jewelry m.. . No matter how little vou pay, you get. quality tor the price. No matter how much you pay, you get intrinsic value for your money. Aside from real values you can choose from an assortment unrival ed hereabouts. T. H. WYNNE! Manufacturing Jeweler and Optician, - - Griffin, Ga. Cattle Buying for Swift & Company Swift & Company buys more than 9000 head of cattle, on an average, every market day. Each one of them is “sized up” by experts. Both the packer’s buyer and the commission salesman must judge what amount of meat each animal will yield, and how fine it will be, the grading of the hide, and the quantity and quality of the fat. Both must know market conditions for live stock and meat throughout the country. The buyer must know where the different qualities, weights, and kinds of cattle can be best marketed as beef. If the buyer pays more than the animal is worth, the packer loses money on it. If he offers less, another packer, or a shipper or feeder, gets it away from him. If the seller accepts too little, the live stock raiser gets less than he is entitled to. If he holds out for more than it is worth, he fails to make a sale. A variation of a few cents in the price per hundred pounds is a matter of vital importance to the packer, because it means the difference between profit and loss. Swift & Company, U. S. A.
