The Wheat and Flour Trade under Food Administration Control: 1917–18

Wilfred Eldred

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1918, vol. 33, issue 1, 1-70

Abstract: I. Commercial situation and price trend during the crop year 1916–17, 2. — II. Evident necessity for government control, 5. — III. Slow progress of legislation, 11. — IV. The Food Act, 14. — V. Voluntary agreement between millers and Food Administration, 18. — VI. The Wheat Price Committee, 23. — VII. Resentment of wheat growers, 25. — VIII. Efforts to stimulate milling, 25. — IX. Distribution of wheat stocks, 29. — X. Stabilizing the market, 32. — XI. Effort of growers to get an advanced price, 36. — XII. Decline in milling activity early in 1917, 38. — XIII, XIV. Increase in output after price stabilization, 39. — XV. Control of percentage of flour and feed, 43. — XVI. "Cost plus" method of price regulation, 45. — XVIII. Evasions, 48. — XX. Complications with excess profits tax, 51. — XXII. Summary and critical estimate of results, 59.

Date: 1918
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