THE .OFFICIAL BULLETIN
RALEIGH, N. ( MARCH 1, 1918.
L No. 1
United States Food Administration
THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Henky A. Page, Food Administrator.
John Paul Lucas, Executive Secretary and
Director of Public Information.
This bulletin is issued for the convenience
and information of County Food Administrators and members of their organizations, for
licensees under the Food Administration, for
unlicensed merchants, and for ministers and
other community leaders who are interested
in and desire to promote home service in the
war through increased production and conservation of food and feedstuffs.
WILL DISTRIBUTE NEW
HOME CARDS NEXT WEEK
State Food Administrator Henry A. Page
has fixed the week of March 4-9 for the distribution of the new 1918 Home Card. During that week more than 20,000 ^patriotic
North Carolina men and women, members
of the Food Administration's committees in
the school districts, under direction of the
various County Food Administrators, will
distribute 400,000 food cards and 400,000
each of two leaflets of war recipes among
the housewives of North Carolina.
There is a home card and a copy of each
of these leaflets for every housewife in the
State, and if any housekeeper is overlooked
by the Food Administration workers, she
should call upon the County Food Administrator or State Food Administrator for her
copies of the card and leaflets.
SUBSTITUTION NEEDED
"I realize full well that 70 per cent of our
households are conducted with thrift and
without waste," Mr. Hoover has declared,
but even in these housholds there is need for
intelligent substitution in order that we may
supply the soldiers in the trendies and the
people of the Allied countries with the four
essentials, wheat, meat, sugar, and fats.
NEW REGULATIONS GOViikNING THE HALF THE WORLD %
DISTRIBUTION OF FLOUR AND SUGAR STARVING TODAY
THE LICENSE SYSTEM
IS BEING EXTENDED
Small Flour Mills, Bakeries, Hotels,
Restaurants, and Feed Dealers Included.
All bakers, hotels, restaurants, boarding-
houses, clubs, and other public eating-houses
using three barrels of flour or more per
month are subject to license, effective February 4(1..
All flour and rye mills of less than 75 barrels capacity, regardless of how small their
capacity, are subject to license, effective February 15th.
All manufacturers, brokers, jobbers and
wholesalers handling mixed feeds, grain, hay
and other feedstuffs, regardless of the volume
of their business, and all retailers handling
an aggregate business of $100,000 a year or
more in these products are subject to license
February 15th.
The operation of any business which is subject to license without having procured license
is punishable by a fine of $5,000 and one
year's imprisonment. When application is
made, however, showing good faith, the applicant may continue to conduct his business in
a normal manner until license blanks are
secured.
All licenses are issued by the License Division, Food Administration, at Washington.
Application should be made direct to that
address. In applying" for license describe your
business in detail.
flour must not be sole
other cereals.— farmei
get 48 pounds.—maximt
Flour and sugar.
State Food Administrator Henry A. Pi
lias announced the following rulings relating
to the combination sale of flour with cere
Substitutes, the maximum prices that may |
charged for flour and sugar, and the maxl
mum quantities that may be sold of the <
commodities by retailers:
1. All retailers are forbidden to sel
wheat flour except in combination, pound
for pound, with other cereals. The;
other cereals are as follows: Corn mea
corn flour, edible corn starch, hominy,
grits, oatmeal, rolled oats, buckwheat
flour, rice, rice flour, potato flour, sweet
potato flour, cotton-seed flour, milo, kaf-
fir and feterita flours and meals, soybean
flour, peanut flour, casava flour, taro
flour, banana flour. This means that for
each pound of flour you sell to a consumer, you must sell one pound of the
other cereals named.
2. The dealer may sell one pound of
whole wheat graham flour in combination with one-half pound of other cereal
substitutes as the whole wheat flour contains 25 per cent of wheat middlings and
3. Mixed flours containing less than ;"><■
per cent of white wheat flour may b
sold without accompanying cereal subs,
tutes. A number of mills arc preparim.
to market such a product.
4. The retailer is required to distrilmt
the Hour he receives as equitably as po*
3XCEPT IN COMBINATION WITH
3 SIGNING CERTIFICATES MAY
QUANTITIES AND PROFITS ON
and their usual profits up to three-
fourths cent a pound in quantities of
24 pounds or more.
6. Sugar must not be sold in quantities
in excess of Ave pounds to a consumer
living in the town or city and ten pounds
to a cohsumer living in the country. The
maximum price at which sugar may be
sold is 10 cents a pound. Where retailers
can show to their County Food Administrators that they have paid more than
9 cents a pound for sugar delivered,
their County Food Administrator is authorized to grant them an exception to
this ruling to the extent of allowing
them to sell at such a price as will give
them their normal profits up to one cent
7. Retail merchants are authorized to
sell flour alone in quantities not exceeding 48 pounds to farmer customers who
sign a formal certificate stating that they
have produced and are using corn meal,
grits, hominy, or other cereal substitutes
contained in the list included in paragraph 1 above to the same extent as they
Wholesalers, jobbers, millers and brokers are authorized to sell to retailers
flour alone in such quantities as said
retailers have sold to farmers under the
ruling above stated, balancing against
such sale of flour the certificates re-
f llol
to
more than 48 to 98 pounds to a era
sumer in the country.
5. Because of the necessity and <1
sirability of selling smaller quantities n
Hour as a result of the new ruling regard
ing combination sales, the recent ruliir.
fixing the maximum price of flour .i
$12.50 per barrel has been revoked, an<
merchants are authorized to charge tin i i
usual profits up to one cent a pound i
flour in quantities of less than 24 pound
type-
tes for re-
a sufficient
■ following
I hereby certify that I have produced
and am consuming upon my table wheat
flour substitutes at the rate of not less
than one pound of such substitutes for
every pound of flour I use. I further
certify that I have on hand or under
contract not more than pounds
of wheat flour.
WISE FARMERS WILL
INCREASE THEIR HERDS
The Food Administration and the Department of Agriculture are urging further production of live stock. Whether the war continues or we return to peace, it will be good
policy to increase our herds. If war proceeds, we may expect further depletion of
European herds, with a consequent increase
in their demands for meat. If it ends, there
will be a demand for live stock with which to
rebuild Europe's herds. The farmer or
rancher who maintains his herds may be
absolutely sure that he is making a good7 investment. And at the same time he is helping to win the war, because the Allies are in
sore need of meat.
The herds of cattle in Europe number
28,000,000 less than before the war began.
There are 32,000,000 fewer hogs, and 54,000,-
000 fewer sheep.
FOOD ADMINISTRATOR HENRY A. PAGE
CALLS UP0N1RKERS FOR COOPERATION
NEW HOME CARD MUST GO INTO EVERY HOME IN NORTH CAROLINA.—"INDIVIDUAL SEE /ICE" IS THE WATCHWORD
To School District Committeemen and Otl-
Workers Cooperating with County Fo I
Administrators :
The all-important task.immediately ah< I
of the Food Administration of North Carolina is the distribution of 400,000 copies of?
the 1918 Home Card. This Home Card not
only states in detail the Food Conservatiot
Program of the Food Administration, but
gives succinctly and clearly the reasons w
our people are requested to-conserve th
food products which are best adapted for
port to our armies and the armies and civi
population of our Allies in Europe.
"Individual Service" is the watchword
every patriotic citizen in this grave crisis.*
We can save foodstuffs only as individuals,
and for this reason every individual
woman and child—has an opportunity to r n
der a real service to their country in this
emergency.
a litis Home Card is placed in every
both white and colored people in yon
district or community; and to impress upon
every individual in your community the vital
importance of producing every pound and of
saving every pound of food products possible.
Every pound produced and every pound saved
is just that much added to the general supply
for our Allies are drawn.
You have a responsibility and duty in this
matter, because not only your County Food
Administrator, but the State Food Administration and the National Government is depending upon you to see that everything possible is done in your community or district to
aid in the support of the Nation and the
cause of humanity. Our food pledge campaign was a wonderful success in almost
every county in North Carolina, and 1 am
sure that 1 can conlideully anticipate your
I0NUY A. PAGE,
Food Administrator.
American Farmer Has Unprecedented
Opportunity for Service
and Profit.
ALLIES AND NEUTRALS ARE
LOOKING TO UNCLE SAM
Lack of Tonnage Prevents Transportation
of Foodstuffs from Countries Farther
Away—Women and Children Perishing by
Thousands—How North Carolina Farmers
May increase Production.
No people in the history of the world have
had such opportunity for service as American farmers have today. Almost half the
people in the world are facing starvation.
Our friends and Allies are dying and suffering because of the lack of nourishing food.
Women as lovable and good as our mothers
are starving; children as sweet and pure as
our own children are dropping by the wayside because of the lack of food; strong men
are falling out of the struggle for existence
because they have not food.
America is the greatest food-producing nation on earth. Because of shipping difficulties arising from the destruction of tonnage
by submarines, our Allies and the neutral
countries of Europe are depending on us to
supply them with all foodstuffs they require
above their own limited production. If we
had produced last year twice the wheat we
harvested, all that we could have spared
would have been needed. Conditions in Europe are steadily growing worse and the demands made upon us by every patriotic and
humanitarian instinct are increasing.
Every farmer in North Carolina and in
America is called upon to cultivate the
largest acreage in food crops he possibly can.
lie is called upon to increase his production
per acre to the utmost pound. This can be"
done by better soil preparation, by heavier
fertilization with manure, woodsmold, leaves,
and commercial fertilizers, and by the most
careful and effective cultivation of all crops
through the growing season.
Produce and save everything! Waste nothing ! The food or feed product that is wasted
in North Carolina deprives a soldier or a
woman or child in Europe. Every pound
saved or produced helps to sustain a soldier
in the field or to prevent a woman or child
in Europe perishing from starvation.
CASH AND CARRY
SYSTEM FAVORED
A large number of merchants have asked
the Food Administration if they were allowed
to make an extra charge for food commodities to cover delivery and other costs. State
Food Administrator Henry A. Page has announced that the Food Administration has
no objection to a "service charge," above the
cash price of goods, which may be charged
for delivery or credit.
The Food Administration looks with favor
upon the "Cash and Carry" system of doing
business and encourages the adoption of this
system by all retailers in food commodities
for the benefit of that large class, of purchasers who must economize to the utmost.
and who almost without exception pay cash
for their purchases.
"The cost of the credit and delivery system should be charged against the people who
are benefited by it, and no part of it should
he charged against people who pay cash for
their purchases and carry their bundles home
for themselves," declares Mr. Page.
RETAIL TRADE NOT AFFECTED
The recent order of the Food Administration regarding the killing of hens and pullets
does not very greatly affect local trade in
chickens. State Food Administrator Henry
A. Page announces that no chickens may be
e State, and all producers,
nsumers are urged to dis-
• as possible the killing of
until April 30th, but the
■n shipment of small mini-
from the rural sections to
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