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Show IKUBICES N TIFTY-FIFTY' HOLE Whi Flour May Be Sold Only With Like Weight of Substitute. WTiat Is tenned the "fifty-fifty" regulation regu-lation is the latest that Is to bo enforced by the food administration. Vi Under the direction of the national administrator the slate administrator is ordering tho strict observance of t he following: White flour may not be sold unless at the same time the customer buys and takes at least the same amount, pound for pound by weight, of one or more of the following substitutes: Bran, shorts, middlings, corn flour, cornmcal, edible corn starch, hominy, corn s'rtts, barley flour, rolled oats, oatmeal, rice, rice flour, .buckwheat flour, potato flour, sweet potato flour, milo flour, kafiir flour, kafflr meal, feterita flour, feterita meal, soya ben meal, peanut meal, dry beans. Four pounds of potatoes may be sold as the equivalent of one pound of above substitutes. Whole wheat flour and graham flour (containing not less than 20 per cent ' of bran and shorts) may be sold six pounds of flour to four pounds of substitutes. sub-stitutes. Also effective March 11 is the new food programme, which readjustment has been made necessary by the Increased In-creased demand of our associates In the war for breadstuffs. And the increased in-creased meat production, which gives so much more for home consumption, is the reason that Tuesday is to be only beet'less and porkless and the Saturday porkless Is to be eliminated entirely. Tho meatless meal each day is also eliminated, except on Tuesday, Tues-day, as increased meat consumption will of itself curtail the use of wheat. The two wheatiess days' will still be retained. In a statement setting forth the reason for the change In the programme pro-gramme Mr. Hoover says: ' "The allies have made further and Increased demands for breadstuffs, these enlarged demands being caused to some degree by shortage In arrivals ar-rivals from Argentina. It is therefore necessary for the food administration to urge a still further reduction in the consumption of bread and breadstuffs generally, if we are to meet our export ex-port necessities. "Experience shows that the consumption con-sumption of breadstuffs is intimately associated with the consumption of meat. For various reasons our supplies sup-plies of meat for the next two or three months are considerably enlarged en-larged and we can supply the allies with all the meat products which transportation facilities render possible possi-ble and at the same time somewhat Increase our consumption. In these circumstances, the food administration considers it wise to relax the voluntary volun-tary restrictions on meat consumption to some extent, with a view of further fur-ther decreasing bread consumption." No doubt there will be difficulty in getting adequate supplies of substitutes, substi-tutes, but these supplies are now In-flreasing, In-flreasing, and in all cases wheat flour must be sold onlv to the extent that the dealer can furnish substitutes. Mr. Armstrong said Just before he left yesterday for Washington: '-It is not a question of Inconvenience, or even of hardship. Wo must do these things whether we like It or not. We must feed our own boys." |