The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1918-08-03

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FINE FEAT IN DIVIDING SUGAR.
Louisiana's Showing, as Usual, One
OF the Best in Entire Country.
The Louisiana Food Administra-
tion has made another record. This
ttime the feat was in connection with
the sugar distribution system. The
sugar handlers have been divided in
to Ave classes, and the total applica-
tons exceeded nine thousand. The
July certificates were accompanied
tby the promise that the August allot-
fments would be issued about July 20.
The: new certificates were ready, but
the government ordered them held
up for further orders. The sugar
shortage had become more acute and
there was need for revising the di-
vision and recasting the distribution.
When the new instructions were tele-
graphed the consumption limit was
reduced to two pounds per person
per month, and Louisiana $ allot-
snent was scaled from a little over
ten million pounds to- a little over six
million, and the August cloth had to
be cut to fit. a rush job was per-
formed. The certificates to dealers,
bakers and eating places have gone
out and the supply left has been ap-
portioned to the industries in accord
ance with their essentially status.
Handlers of sugar in number OF
states say that Louisiana made one
Of the best shoWings in the entire
The staff not only worked
extra hours, but expert adding ma
cine operators from the hanks We're
enlisted and filled III the nights and
Sundays j John Nd. Parker, food ad-#
ministrator for Louisiana, Id very
proud of the service his office was
able to perform.
The subtraction Of another pound
+ from the already compressed sugar
Hrations was followed by very little
conplai Al comp plianee il already
general without the red of ythiaig
tEhab sounded ollaIlla and II ac<
tories, resorts, and llier Large st,gar
users have already lea ned 10 use sla s,-
as h 1osley syrlpss
asie sl-sI
II ltsel's
rs
|nient among The home baaT aitis
passed and they are now ~ aHilag
bread, u16ns and cakes without SUI
gar and preparing fine pastry with
t The snbstitut ties. reservlng aaloA
canning have been practiced more
& extensively than In many years, 0W-# ~
inc to the bountiful fruit crop, but
the pack was completed with much
less sugar, Cooking the fruit little
llonger makes 1t possible to dispense
with considerable sugar, and the
government and other agencies dis
Iseminated education in processes
(which almost did away with the need
flor sweetening.
| The changes in the flour program
ilave not yet been cabled by = erDert
| Hoover. who made a personal survey
sc the situation iii Europe so as TO
llay his plans most efficiently IN the
meantime the food administrators OF
1.-The zone including Texas, Arkansas,
| Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee,
with Florida and Alabama as vol
lntary allies, have agreed upon aD-
Isolutely uniform -four regulations Tor
Ithe entire section. Certificates COW
erine various phases of wheat con-
Iservation are being drawn up and
these will bennade immediately efrect-
live and will be enforced alike IN all
1.-The states named. This will DO away
| With the border troubles which nave
rot only been very annoying but
(which gave opportunity to the COM
iparativelv few unpatriotic raer.
tchants to profit upon the loyalty q
others. The United States Food Ad-
ministration has started in the new
| crop flour program with estab blisiled
Idafnite fair prices at every mill point
lin tile United States The cost Of
packages and transportation is added
lto the fixed price in order 70 caicu-
Hate actual cost, and there are d1ffer-
| entails on bulk. A iobber is required
10 sell at not more than twenty-five
rs fifty cents over delivered cost to
him. and the retailer at not more
han one dollar twenty cents over
/ The price he paid. Each mill invoice
must have printed on it the so-caliea 81 !.
i fair prices, making it very easy Tor
the food officials or any buyers 20
1 detect overcharges. The fair prices
for. carload lots at New Orleans, as
the milling point. are $1O.l6 for
.lflour. S27.263 for bran, S28.5l for
linked feed, and s29.26 for n1iddI-
Ilings, shorts, and Red Dog. After
4 Handling costs are added, it is said
4 the price Of -four will be about one
| | dollar barrel below that Of a veal