The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-27
CHEAPER SUGAR
IS PROMISED
Cent and Half Less Per Pound
Beginning October /, An
nounced by
Hoover.
BUT SUPPLY IS LIMITED
Ice and Bread Taken LIP With e.
forts to Force Cost
Down
Notch.
BUT SUPPLY IS LIMITED

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-Ameri-
can householders are to have cheaper
sugar-but they must not use SO
much Of 1t.
Herbert Hoover, returning from
Chicago today, after a conference
with meat packers. said beginning
October / there will be cut Of 11s
cents a pound below present prices
At the same time he warned that the
allies are already on sugar rations
and it will be necessary for the
American public to economic.
Under an agreement between the
food administration and the United
States beet sugar producers, their
crop will be available at lower prices
Cuban sugar is commanding exorbi-
tant prices and the chief portion Of
that crop will not arrive until De-
cember. With the cut in American
beet sugar, it Is estimated that the
Cuban price also will be sliced.
Meantime Chairman Garfield Of the
wheat price fixing board met with
consumers, seeking lower bread
prices. He expects to finish his
wheat work this week, so that he may
devote his entire time to his coal
work. The American Home Econ
omics association has presented the
food administration with brief
claiming that the bread prices have
been unreasonably high and thnt the
price on this years wheat crop
should not reach So bushel.
Idaho Potato Crop.
CHICAGO, Aug. 27.-B. L. Win
80 np fhn I1nfNn
Pacific railway today received final
estimate of the potato crop in Idaho
this year, which is placed at 5000
carloads or over 100000 bushels.
Lower Price on Ice.
CHICAGO, Aug. 27-Cheaper ice
for the nation was in sight today.
REPRESENTATIVES of companies vir-
tually controlling the Ice industry Of
the country were in session here to-
day to adjust prices and supply, in
accordance with plans Of Herbert
Hoover's Department.
The necessity of ice as preserver,
and hence a saver Of food, is to be
emphasized in a nationwide publicity
campaign, 1t was stated.
ITO be successful in our under
taking we must sell ice to the peo-
pie at a price that will make it
real economy" declared David A.
Brown of Detroit, one Of those re-
sponsible for today's meeting. THE
cost of the fee to the housewife must
be less than the value of the food
she would waste without ice"
The ice industry, he said, must go
on record as backing Hoover to the
limit.
Wheat Price Fixed.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27-The price
of the 1917 wheat crop fixed by the
government will be announced prob
ably Wednesday. Until then DR.. H. A.
Garfield. chairman Of the price fixing
committee, says there will be no tntf-
nation of what the figure will be.
A Joint stock committee from the
food administration and the depart
ment of agriculture Is working on the
meat price problem but indications are
that a separate committee will be as
signed soon to handle meat, the same
as sugar.
Profits Of MIIers.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. 27.-
Maximum profits of milleTs on the
wheat crop of 1917 have been tenta-
lively fixed by agreement with the food
, administration at Washington as fol-
lows:
Flour % cents barrel; mill feed
! so cents a ton.
This developed today in informal
discussion among Minneapolis millers.
/ The mfllers' national committee will
| soon present this tentative agreement
to the millers generally for formal ac-
| ceptance. The millers are already un-
der pledge to abide by 1t.
The plan is for the federal food ad'
ministration through its newly organ
lied food corporation to buy the wheat
at the terminal markets, at a price to
! be fixed by the Hoover committee now
considering this problem at Washing
/ ton.
The millers will in turn buy the
grain at that price from the food cor
poration. They will then grind it into
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