The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
NEW SUGAR IN CONNECTICUT WILL
 COST ELEVEN CENTS
Consumers to Get Benefit of Fractional Cents on
 Large Purchases.

Sugar should not cost Connecticut housewives more than eleven cents a pound, according to Robert Scoville. Connecticut's Fedetal Food Admins trator, who added, in a statement made today. that on much sugar elev- en cents was really an excessive price for some time to cotae. The so-called new sugar, stocks sold from the re- f1neries since September 9 and costing about $50 per cwt. more than former ly,, all this increased price going di- rect to the producers who were found to be entitled to increased prices, has not yet arrived in Connecticut to any large extent, and the old sugar must be sold at the former reduced price of about ten cents pound as long as it lasts. The new sugar will cost $0.5O per cwt at the rennefies.
 Cent Pound Maximum Profit.
 As before, the retail dealer may charge not more than one cent a pound profit, but under the new rules the consumer and not the retailer is going to get the benefit of fractional cents. The highest freigh point in Connecti- cut will pay $o55 for a hundred pounds of sugar delivered, and this, plus the dealers profit of cent pound, will make the retailers selling price $.1055, which, of course, will amount to eleven cents single pound. In selling more than one pound, how ever, the dealer will hereafter be re- Quired to multiply the number of pounds by the cost pEice to him and then add one cent for every pound in the transaction. As an example, sugar in Hartford, which has a freight rate from New York of IS cents per cwt., will cost eleven cents for one pound for two pounds, two times $095S plus two cents, or 21 cents for three pounds, three times $.0953 plus three cents, or 32 cents; for five pounds, five times $.O953 plus i've cents, or 53 cents; for ten pounda, ten times $.0953 plus ten cents, or s1.06, and so on ac- cording to the number of pounds sold.
 May Sell Weeks Supply.
 Retailers are no longer bound by the two and five pound sales rule for city and country dwellers, but may sell any family a weeks supply of sugar, always passing the sale on the require ment of two pounds per month per member of the family.
 States October Allotment.
 Connecticut's sugar allotment for October is about four million, four hundred thousand pounds. With res taurants and other public eating places, including institutions, and boarding houses taken care of, togeth- CT with bakers. confectionerS, ice cream makers and other more or less essential users of sugar, there remain about three million pounds of sugar for distribution among the retail stores of the state. Because the retail stores, as a whole, were carless in honoring canning certificates for lavishly large amounts and exceeded tl1e whole quar- ter's supply on their statements requisItioning sugar for July and Au- gust they got practically none In Sep tembar. The Food Administration is- sued to the retail stores for the last l quarter about twelve million pounds of sugar, and inasmuch as this is four i times the amount available for them in October, each retailer may expect his October allowance to be about one- quarter of what he secured in July or August or in September, if he did se- l cure any that month.
 Certificates Being Issued.
 l The Food Administration is now busy issuing and checking the new statements for retailers, and after i these are checked the October issue of the new series of sugar certificates will be mailed the retailers. Although | these new statements contain a clause | from the former agreement whereby the dealer signing promises to sell in not larger than two or five pound lots to city and country dwellers respec- lively, the dealer may ignore this agreement. which was being printed at the time that the rule was rescinded.
 Why Sugar Is Scarce.
 Because the Hawaiian and West In. dian sugar crop is less than normal, because French sugar lands are over run by the Huns and the sugar re- fineries destroyed and because of sub. marine sinkings between Cuban and American ports the sugar shortage re- mains serious and will continue 30 un. til the first of next year, and even aft CT New Years it is not at all certain but that the American public will have to observe strict economy of its sugar allowance, which is part of the worlds supply, now pooled among all the Al. lies, who are. as President Wilson says, "eating at common table."