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Show Id cake bnTtlna. Corn grits "fried TTke mush forms n delicious dish, or it may be used In linking corn bread. Rolled oats are used largely as breakfast porridge por-ridge or In oatmeal cookies or In making mufllns. Buckwheat flour may be used In bread making, forming an excellent substitute for one-quarter of the wheat flour, but Is especially choice in the form of buckwheat cakes for brenkfast. With 11 whentless meals needed I each week In America to provide enough wheat for the allies, the Food i Administration believes the substitutes I will all be used to advantage. HELP" IN 50-50 WKEflTJROGRAM Thousands of Retail Grocers Support Sup-port Food Administration Rules. SIGN PLEDGE VOLUNTARILY. New Wheat Saving Program Demanded Demand-ed Allied Food Shortage Increases In-creases America Must Feed Fighters. Explaining the Dnlted States Food Administration's new 50-50 wheat regulations reg-ulations Is a war time task the American Ameri-can grocer has gladly shouldered. Many stores are already displaying their Food Administration wheat saving sav-ing pledge cards, that they have signed, sign-ed, agreeing to carry out the new wheat program. Each Hour customer Is now required requir-ed to buy one pound of cereal substitute substi-tute for every pound of wheat flour. The substitute may be of one kind or assorted. This 50-50 sale Is made by weight and not by value of the commodities. com-modities. There Is, of course, no regulation reg-ulation demanding the consumer to buy wheat flour at all. A wide variety of substitutes has been provided : Cornmeal, corn flour, euTble cornstarch, hominy, corn grits, barley flour, potato (lour, sweet potato Hour, soya bean flour, Feteriia flour and meals, rice, rice flour, oatmeal, rolled oats and buckwheat flour. Graham and whole wheat flour con. stltute an exception to the national regulation. Either of these commodities commodi-ties may be sold at the ratio of three pounds to five pounds of wheat flJur that is, flve pounds of graham or wheat flour counts the same as three pounds of the usual wheat flour. Mixed flours form another exception. excep-tion. Where any flour contains 50 per cent or less of wheat It may be sold without any substitutes. Where ihe flour Is mixed at the rate of GO per cent, wheat and 40 per cent, of other ingredients an additional 20 per cent, of substitutes must be purchased by the consumer. Where necessity Is shown specially prepared infant's and Invalid's food containing flour may be sold. That the approved substitutes may be assorted is a fact many grocers and housewives overlooked for a time. For Instance, If a customer wishes to buy a 24 pound sack of flour the necessary nec-essary substitutes might be assorted as follows: Cornmeal, 8 pounds; corn grits, 4 pounds; rice, 4 pounds; buckwheat, buck-wheat, 2 pounds; cornstarch, 1 pound; hominy, 2 pounds; rolled oats, 8 pounds. None of the substitutes should be considered as a waste purchase. There are many household uses tor each. The eight pounds of cornmeal can be made into cornbread, corn muffins muf-fins or used In the baking of wheat bread. Cornstarch Is useful In making eus-. lard, .thickening gravy or jnaj be used |