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Show , MARKETING POUND FOR POUND ATI housewives must now buy their, heat flour with equal quantities of I ; other cereals. Not of one cereal, mark you! It doesn't mean that if five; pounds of flour is bought the other l five pounds must all be in rice or in barley flour or oatmeal or any other j j one substitute, but that it can be in; ; rice and barley flour and oatmeal and j any or all other substitutes. There is a wide range of choice to ( make up these pound for pound pur-j chases. The substitutes include corn meal, corn flour, edfble corn, starch,) i hominy, corn grits, barley flour, po-toio po-toio flour, sweet potato flour, soya bean flour, fate ria flour and meals, rice, rice flour, oat meal, rolled oats, I buckwheat flour. All of theoe, it is true, may not be available in the lo- ; cal market but there will be enough to lend variety to the cereals pur- chased. The difference between what has become known as combination sales ! and the fifty fiftj sale is this: the' former was a convenience for ihe storekeeper, helping him to get rid j of excess stock by forcing an extra purchase; while the latter is the country's effort to reduce the total consumption of wheat by increasing the consumption of other cereals. If this is divided among several staple supplies it can easily be used i during the same period as the flour purchased at the Bame lime and the very fact that those things are in the larder will automatism increase 'heir use and diminish the use of wheat. The following is merely a suggested purchase on the fifty-fltfyj basis, for a flour supply for a fam-j ily of two covering a period of two, weeks . Five pounds of flour; 5 pounds of other corr!s (divided as follows) 1 lb. rice (to be used as a vege- table, in soup, desserts, etc.) 2 lbs, cornmeal (for muffins, bread, i Inrllan pudding, etc ) 1-2 lb. corn ,-tarch (for thickenings, puddings, etc.) 1-2 lh. oatmeal (to be used as break -Fast food, in cookies, etc ) 1 lb hominv (to be used as vegetable vege-table lessening the ue of bread, or as a cereal.) Total, 5 lbs. of other cereals. |