Middletown transcript., 1917-10-20
STAPLE FOODS
UNDER CONTROL
Put Under License BY Presi-
Dental Proclamation.
20 COMMODITIES AFFECTED
Manufacture, Storage, Importation and
Buying and Selling Brought Under
Federal Registration To Pre-
vent Unreasonable Profits.

hington.-Governme control of
foodstuffs is extended to take in vir-
tually all the essential articles of diet
by proclamation issued by President
Wilson directing the Food Administra-
tion to license after November 1 the
manufacture, storage, importation and
distribution of some 20 prime COM
modities. Many small dealers are ex-
empted, as are farmers, who were
especially excepted in the Food Con-
troll Law.
The Proclamation.
After quoting the Food Control Act,
under which the action is taken, the
Presidents proclamation says:
ut is essential, in order to carry into
effect the purpose of said act, to Ii
cense the importation, manufacture,
storage and distribution of necessaries
to the extent hereinafter specified.
"All persons, firms, corporations and
associations engaged in the business
either of Q operating cold-storage
warehouses Ia cold-storage warehouse,
for the purpose of this proclamation,
being defined as any place artificially
or mechanically cooled to or below a
temperature of As degrees Fahrenheit,
in which food products are placed and
held for thirty days or more(; (2)
operating elevators, warehouses or
other places for storage of corn, oats,
barley, beans, rice, cottonseed, cotton
seed cake, cottonseed meal or peanut
meal, or (3) importing. manufacturing
Gncluding milling, mixing or packing,
or distributing (including buying or
selling) any or the following COM
modities:
Commodities Affected.
Wheat, wheat -four, rye or rye
flour; barley or barley flour; oats, oat-
meal or rolled oats; corn, corn grits,
cornmeal, homony, corn -four, starch
from corn, corn oil, corn syrup or glu-
cose; rice, rice -four; dried beans; pea
seed or dried peas; cottonseed, cotton
seed oil, cottonseed cake or cottonseed
meal; peanut oil or peanut meal; soya
bean oil, soya bean meal, palm oil or
copras oil; oleomargarine, lard, lard
substitutes, oleo oils or cooking fats
milk, butter or cheese; condensed,
powdered or evaporated milk fresh
canned or cured beef, pork or mutton;
poultry or eggs; fresh or frozen fish;
fresh fruits or vegetables; canned peas,
dried beans, tomatoes, corn, salmon or
sardines; dried prunes, apples, peaches
or raisins; sugar, syrups or molasses.
Small Dealers Exempted.
Excepting, however, the following:
Operators of all elevators or ware
houses handling wheat or rye, and
manufactures of the derivative prod
ucts of wheat or rye, who have already
been licensed.
importers, manufacturers and re-
finers of sugar, and manufacturers of
sugar syrups and molasses, who have
already been licensed.
Retailers whose gross sales of food
commodities do not exceed 100000 per
annum.
Common carriers.
Farmers, gardeners, cooperative
associations of farmers or gardeners,
including live stock farmers, and
other persons with respect to the prod
ucts of any farm. garden or other land
owned, leased or. cultivated by them
Fishermen whose business does
not extend beyond primary consign-
ment.
'Those dealing in any of the above
commodities on any exchange, board
of trade or similar institution as de-
fined by Section 13 of the act of Au-
gust 10, 1917, to the extent of their
dealings on such exchange or board
of trade.
"Millers of corn, oats, barley, wheat,
rye or rice operating only plants of
daily capacity of less than IS bar
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