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Show . U. S. Hksi liii fa Of n. A I t J America Consumed 42,CC0,G00 Bushels Monthly. From Now Until Harvest Must Use Cr!y 21,000,000. RATION PER PERSCW IS POUNDS OF WHEAT PRODUCTS WEEKLY Military Necess:?y Calls for Gre-.ter Sacrifice Here Allied War Eread Must De Maint-.inad Our Soldiers and Sailors to Have Full Allowance. If we are to furnish the Allies with the necessary proportion propor-tion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the next harvest, and this is a military necessity, we must reduce our monthly consumption to 21,000,000 bushels a month, as against our normal consumption of about 42,000,000 bushels, or 50 per cent, of our normal consumption. This is the situation situa-tion as set forth by the U. S. Food Administration at Washington. Washing-ton. Reserving a maririn for distribution to the army and for special cases, leaves for general consumption approximately 112 pounds of wheat products weekly per person. The Food Administration's statement continues: Many of ou'r consumers are dependent upon bnkers' bread. Such bread must be durable and therefore, requires a larger proportion of wheat products than cereal breads baked in the household. Our army and navy require a full allowance. The well-to-do in our population can make greater sacrifices in the consumption of wheat products than can the poor. In addition, our population in the agricultural districts, where the other cereals are abundant, abun-dant, are more skilled in the preparation of breads from these other cereals than the crowded city and industrial populations. With improved transportation conditions we now have available avail-able a surplus of potatoes. We also have in the spring "months a surplus of milk, and we have ample corn and oats for human consumption. The drain on rye and barley, as substitutes has already greatly exhausted the supply of these min ' To effect the needed savin;,' of wheal we ar wholly dependent upon t lie voluntary assistance of the American people and we ask that the following rules shall be observed: 1. Householders to flse not to exceed a total of iy2 pounds per week of wheat products per person. This means not more than pounds of .ctory bread containing the required percentage of substitutes and one-half pound of cooking flour, macaroni, crackers, pastry, pics, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, all combined. 2. Public eating places and clubs to observe two wheat less days per week, Monday and Wednesday, as at present. In addition thereto, not to serve to any one guest at any one meal an aggregate of breadstulTs. macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, containing a total of more than two ounces of wheat flour. No wheat products to be served unless specially ordered. Public eating eat-ing establishments not to buy more than six pounds of wheat products for each ninety meals served, thus conforming con-forming with the limitations requested of the householders. 8. Retailers to sell not more than one-eighth of a barrel of Hour to any town customer at any one time and not more than one-quarter r,f a barrel I to any country customer at any one time, and in no case to sell wheat products without the sale of an equal weight of other cereals. i 4. We ask the bakers anil grocers to reduce the volume of Victory bread gold, by delivery of the three-quai'tor pound loaf where-one pound w as sold b fore, and corresponding proportions In other weights. We also ask takers not to increase the amount of their wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per ; cent, of the average monthly amount ' purchased in the four months prior to .March 1. 5. Manufacturers using wheat products prod-ucts for non-food purposes should cease such use entirely. 0. There is no limit upon the use of oilier cereals, Hours, and meals, corn, barley, buckwheat, potato flour, et cetera. Many thousand families throughout. the land are now using no wheat products prod-ucts whatever, except a very small amount for cooking purposes, and are.' doing so in perfect health and satisfaction. satisfac-tion. There is no reason why all of the American people who are able to cook in their own households cannot subsist perfectly well with the use of less wheat products than one and one-half one-half pounds a week, and we specially ask the well-to-do households in the country to follow this additional programme pro-gramme in order that we may provide the necessary marginal supplies for those parts of the community less able to adapt themselves to so large a proportion pro-portion of substitutes. In order that we shall be able to make the wlueat exports that are absolutely ab-solutely demanded of us to maintain" the civil population and soldiers of the allies and our own army, we propose to supplement the voluntary co-opera tion ot the public by a further limitation limita-tion of distribution, and we shall place at once restrictions on distribution which will be adjusted from time to lime to secure as nearly equitable distribution dis-tribution as possible. With the arrival of harvest we should be able to relax such restrictions, Until then we ask for the necessary patience, sacrifice and co-operation of the distributing I rades. |