The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-05-09
BUSINESS CONCERNS
USING SUGAR MUST
SHOW CERTIFICATE
Food Admiration Has Set May IS
~ the Date for the New Reau-
Iatlon 10 Take Effect

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turing. bottling. packing or preparing
products In which sugar is used
until he has secured from the pur-
chaser a certificate or certificates
duly endorsed by the buyer and
issued 10 the buyer by the federal
food administrator for the state.
certifying that the total amount OF
sugar 70 be sold or delivered will not
give the buyer more than his fair
share OF the sugar then available for
distribution in the United States. An
nouncement to this effect was made
TO night at the office OF Acting State
Federal Food Administrator John 7.
Cushing
This rule shall not apply to ship
ments or deliveries on bona Ada con
tracts enforceable at law made prior
to May Is. 1918. nor does the rule
apply to sales or deliveries to hotels
restaurants. boradisg houses or other
public eating houses whose products
are sold for consumption on the
premises, nor to wholesale or retail
! dealers In sugar holding a license
from the United States Food Admin
istration, nor to bakers and cracker
manufacturers holding bakers
license.
In addition to these exemptions
certificates will not be required in
sales TO individual consumers, or In
sales to unlicensed retailers OF sugar
not engaged In the manufacturing
business. Neither will certificates be
required In selling to licensed whole
salers. retailers or bakers. even
though they use sugar in the manu-
facture of other products. because
the use OF sugar by such dealers will
be controlled directly by the license
regulations.
Among the manufacturers In sell
ing to whom certificates must be re-
quired are the following; but the list
is not absolutely complete; apple but
ter, beverage syrups. candy, catsup,
cereals, chewing gum, chill sauce.
chocolate. cocoa. condiments, con-
fectionsry, explosives, flavoring ex-
tracts, fruit preserves. fruit syrup,
glycerine. honey, invert sugar. Ice
cream. jam. jelly. meat products.
medicines, preserves, pickles, soda
water. soft drinks, syrups. tobacco.
wine.
Other classes who must furnish
certificates to the wholesaler or re-
taller before sugar can be purchased
are. Gamers, preservers and packers
Of every kind of vegetables, fruit,
milk and meat; Soda water fountains
and dispensers of soft drinks. Bot
tiers Of soft drinks
The use OF sugar is prohibited to
leather tanners and manufacturers OF
non edible products and no certifi-
Gates will be issued to them.
The effect OF this rule is that no
manufacturer using sugar will be
permitted after May Is to purchase
without the surrender OF authorized
sugar distribution certificates issued
by the state food administrator.
Manufacturers may obtain certii-
Gates at the office OF Acting State
Food Administrator John T. Cushing
in ST. Adams, upon delivery OF the
required sworn statement which
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manufacturer Is entitled
Before certificates can be issued
manufacturers must make out q de-
finite report on the form prepared
by the food administration, which
can be secured on application to the
Vermont Administration Offices in st.
Adams The sugar rationing plan as
at present contemplated will endure
for the month OF May and June but
II may become necessary to continue
II In effect for July and August
Certificates will be issued by the
state food administrator covering the
period from May Is. 10 July /. in &C
cordance with their sworn state
ments Certificates will be issued in |
denominations OF from so pounds to |
5000 pounds, and the manufactures |
receiving them shall sign his name
on the back OF them in the space set |
apart for that purpose No whole
saler or retailer Is to sell sugar to
any manufacturer except on the certi-'
hcAte and then only IN the quantities
set forth on the certificate The GER
tifcate Is to be cancelled by the
who saler after II has come into hls
hands and returned 10 the state ad-
The statements TO be submitted by |
the manufacturers As the basis on
which the sugar certificates are to be
issued should include ell sugar pur-
chases made by the manufacturer up
to May Is, and consequently will not
be accepted by the state food admin
istration before that date although
application for them should be made
before then
Mr. Gushing said tonight that
manufacturers should give this mat
ter their 81 attention and should
be accurL In making out their
statements n sugar requirements. for
lack o. dehniteness or any evasion
vii result only in delay and the in