The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-10
NEW RULES CUT DOWN SUGAR
ALLOWED IN THE MASuPAC-
TURE or N0sEssRNTIAL
POODSTUFFS ~

Manufacturers using sugar, except
to make essential food products. will
be put on strict rations, the United
States Food Administration an
nounces. In order TO assure sufficient
supplies for home Gamers and thu
commercial manufacturers OF preser
ves, jams and other foodstuifs regard
cd as essential The restrictions Il
into effect May 10 and limit the con
sumption by manufacturers OF the lesi
essentials, particularly confectionery
and soft drinks. This entire group II
allowed to use only so per cent Of
last years requirements, and under
the new plan distribution will be vel
pollced and under a certificate sys.
tenn that virtually assures the ellmi.
nation Of fictitious demands.
Manufacturers Of nonedible prod.
ucts will be forced to 20 entirely
without sugar.
Included in the class with confec.
ticnery and soft drinks are condi.
ments, soda water, chocolate, candies
beverage sirups, fruit sirups, flavor
Ing extracts, chewing gum, cocoa
sweet pickles, wines, cereals, and in
vert sugar. Those who entered the
business or increased their capacity
after April 1, 1918, however, will be
cut off entirely.
Manufacturers of essential food
stuffs will be permitted to buy suf-
ficient sugar to meet their full re-
quirements. In this class come pre-
servers and packers Of vegetables,
catsup and chill sauce, fruits and milk
manufacturers of jam, jelly, and pre-
serves, tobacco and explosives, apple
butter and glycerin, ice cream (not
including sherbets and water ices),
druggists (for medicines), and pro-
ducers of honey.
Ice cream is put in the preferred
class to assure consumption of sur
plus milk supplies, and thus encour-
age dairy interests to maintain pro-
duction. Tobacco was placed in this
class largely because the amount of
sugar used by tobacconists is almost
negligible, the chief source of sweets
being molasses.
Manufacturers of less essentials
who entered the business or increased
their capacity before November /,
1917, shall receive the so per cent al
lowance, but those who started or ex-
banded after that date but before
April 1, 1918, in the face of an actual
sugar shortage and with full knowl-
edge of the Food Administration an
nounced program of sugar conserva-
ton, will be cut down to so per cent of
requirements. Those who common
ced operations or increased their ca
pacity after that date will not be al
lowed to purchase sugar in any
amounts.
These definite classifications pro-
tect the patriotic manufacturer who
has been OBSERVING the requests of
the Food Administration against COM
petitors who have taken advantage of
the sugar shortage to increase their
profits.
Control of distribution will be in
TIE hands of the Federal food admin
istrators of each State. They will is
sue certificates to all manufacturers
requiring sugar, upon delivery of
sworn statements showing the
amounts to which each is entitled.
None of the distributing agencies will
be allowed to sell sugar to any class
of manufacturers except upon deliv-
cry of certificates. The certificates
cover the period from May Is to July
i, when new conservation measures
may be deemed advisable.
All sellers of sugar-whether re-
finers, jobbers, retail or wholesale
grcores-must cancel the certificates
and return them within one month af-
ter the sale to the Federal food adj
ministrator by whom they were is
sued. From the returned certificates
he will be able to check the record
Of those who are entitled to sugar and
to detect any trading in or counter
feiting of certificates.
Manufacturers are being required to
report the amount of sugar they held
on January 1, 1917, and receipts from
that date until July l. Substracting
the amount on hand July l will give
the total consumption for the first
six months of 1917. They must also
report stock .on hand January /.
1918, and receipts since that date.
From those figures the administra-
tors will be able to determine the ad-
ditional amount of sugar to which the
manufacturers are entitled.
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