The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-30
new SUGAR
ORDERS ARE
ANNOUNCED
County Food Administrator w. ID.
Cochran Issues New Orders on
Sugar For Canning and I'm
mediate Consumption,

all classes A, b, C, d and Il, ma
terially reducing the allowance for
August under July.
The allotment for the State has
been reduced materially for August
and in addition there is not the sugar
in the hands of the retailers on the
first of August that there was on the
first of July. Great economy will be
necessary
The ration for households for Au-
gust will be two pounds per month
per person. The ration for public
eating places will be two pounds for
every 80 meals served
1t will be necessary for retailers to
adopt the following program:
A book or card system must be kept
in which is registered the name of
the head of the household buying SUI
gar, the number of persons in the
family, the allotment for the month at
two pounds per head, the dates dur
ing the month on which the purchases
were made, and the total at the end
Of the month, supplied to the family
must not exceed the allotment. The
book must be kept alphabetically ar
ranged, and the purchases of each
family kept on the page or the card
reserved for the family, so that the
Inspector can see it at any time with
out hunting through the book to find
the purchases. The better plan is a
small card system which can be kept
in box, and each purchase entered
on the purchasers card, and the cards
kept in alphabetical order.
We will send a letter to each re-
taller with his August certificates A
copy is enclosed. In that letter we
suggest the retailer confne his SUI
gar sales to his regular trade. If they
do that when every family will have
certain store at which he buys his
sugar and the practice of people get
ting excess sugar by buying at sew
oral stores will be stopped. We will
send letter to each retailer who, by
reason of the amount he had on hand
first of July, is not entitled to any
August certificates, explaining the
reason why
| A number of retailers have called
this Office to know why their certili-
Gates have not been forwarded and in
many instances we have never receiv-
ed their statement f, and is the rea-
son they have not heard from the Su-
gar Division.
Canning and Preserving Sugar
Administrators must hold certifi-
Gates issued for canning and preserv-
ing sugar to the lowest practical linn
it, No family is to receive more than
70 pounds in the aggregate for can
ming and preserving. In many coun-
ties certificates have only been issued
for ten pounds. Washington advises
that fruit be preserved, at present, by
boiling, and that sugar be added later
when 1t is more plentiful All acid
fruits can be bottled without sugar /;
so can fruit juices by sterilizing with
boiling water increasing the time of
cooking about double. All canning
certificates issued by you to retailers
should be returned by the retailers to
you, and by you forwarded to this Of
flee, giving you an opportunity to in
yestigate whether there are dupli-
Gates You should instruct your de-
putles to be careful in regard to this.
You should limit the territory in
which your deputies can issue can
ming certificates and permit them only
to issue to residents of their district.
We have found where deputies have
issued to one person and he has gone
to another deputy and received an
other allowance from the second de-
putty. This must be stopped, in the
interest of conservation. No certif-
Gates for canning must be issued to
any person not a resident of your
county.
These new restrictions are due to
an excessive shortage at the present
time. Fifty million pounds were sunk
by the submarines operating on the
east coast recently. Many manufac-
tories of beet sugar in France have
been captured by the Germans in the
recent drives, and sugar must be sent
to sustain the armies, and the Amer
lean people must save it. Appeal to
their patriotism and ask assistance
for the common need.
FRED NJ. SACKETT,
Federal Food Administrator for Ken
lucky.
Under this ruling all retailers viii
return their canning and preserving
certificates to me.
Under this new ruling no family il
entitled to receive more than twenty
five (25) pounds In the aggregate 70
canning and preserving, and no certi
ficates will be issued by any Deput!
Food Administrator to any famil.
who has heretofore received 9
pounds of sugar. The Deputies ar
to ASCERTAIN the amount each fsmil
has received by asking the question