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Show GARFIELD PUNS TO REDUCEFLOUR SALES Intention Is to Create Large Export Surplus for the Entente Allies. WASHINGTON", Jan. 24. To create a large export surplus of flour for the allies the food administration is considering consid-ering a. plan ot forced reduction in flour sales all the way from the miller to the consumer. Millers, wholesalers, retailers and bakers probably will be recpiired to hold their sales of flour down to T5 per cent of the amount now handled. As the allies are demanding from 75.-1100,000 75.-1100,000 to 100.000.000 more bushels of wheat the food administration has arranged ar-ranged to take over 30 per cent of America's Amer-ica's flour production, out of which will be selected supplies for export. Food administration officials believe the United States can give Europe DO, 000,000 bushels of wheat made into flour between now and the time the new American crops come . in without endangering the American supply. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 24. George C. Shane, vice president of a corporation which operates a large flour mill in this citv and ten others in the middle west, announced today that his company has decided to begin supplying at once a mixture mix-ture of flour made of combinations of wheat and barley, wheat and rye- and wheat-and corn In about the proportions requircTI to maintain a uniform mixture until the next harvest in July and August. Au-gust. "We realize there will not be enoush wheat Hour to last the country until next harvest lime." said Mr. Shane. "Rather than '.'rind all the wheat flour now and later have to depend on substitutes entirely, en-tirely, we have decided to begin at once furnishing these mixtures." |