K Q Kl F l toy A Decided Improvement tH OUSE and heads of families will welcome i.- i. Mo the change in the substitute rules of tho tue food administration ad ad- nd-I nd 4 ministration not because it lessens the task upon them to save savo wheat but because it reduces some of the mysteries of the lie old oM fifty fifty-fifty rule In the cm end 1 hue he new rulo rule is bound to lend greater b encouragement Ito to to thrift and nl conservation on which arc are the prime object of of f our food regulations because it will pC permit lIui L tb the I housewife to k keep kp ep her operations on an efficient basis impossible imposible under tinder the old rule There can cnn be 10 no but what there has been anti and Still till is is a great need for a 1 wise distribution of or our wheat production and few people will object to an any measure which seeks this end The government go pric prices encourage e wheat production affording a better rat rate than other otiler cereals ms This however howe does docs not encourage the hue consumption of the other cereals because before the substitutes utes reach the thc consumer they command a n. greater price Ice than white ilour 11 It ItS is o one c of or the lie m mysteries mys mys- s 's teries of the old 11 rc regulation which iia has hM never been satisfactorily satisfactorily sat sat- I explained to tho the consumer compelled to lo hu buy buyan an nn equal amount of the substitute If Jf it were possible to buy huy white flour without substitutes substitutes sub sub- torla today it would cost 8 for forty eight orty-ci orty ht pounds If you on wanted the same amount of rl barley flour it would cost you oU approximately J O. O Cite Tho avera average aver aver- a age e Utah yield of haney per acre is about two forty bushels while the tue average l production of wheat wheal is approximately approximately ap ap- proximately twenty eight The Thc government go price of wheat is while the market price of barley is 10 It may moy be bo that the wheat price is an on nt attraction to the thC farmer farmel and encourages cs hi him to in increase his wheat acreage e but somewhere Iowa down the thc line there is greater encouragement ement in the tile production of bade barley and mid other Ru substitutes The Tho food rc regulations established an immediate market market mar mal ket f for r substitutes and while tho the thrifty housewife no nu doubt Iu has tried to keep up tip with tho the fifty fifty-fifty rule it is doubtful if her shelves es are arC cleared of substitutes substitute when hen the lime arrives arrives for the tue purchase of more She has profiled only in that she ohio lIfts hns been placed at her wits' wits to find new uses for substitutes in the daily menus In Ii itself this had aided conservation hut there is a doubtful result when the general condition i ife applied to the economic situation n The new rule should encourage tile the use of substitutes without laying the patriotic consumer open to the assaults of prices inflated 1 by compulsory demands M IN ft