The Press., 1918-10-03
7EN 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 pound, according to Robert ScoVille, | Connecticut's Federal 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 come. The sO-called new sugar, stocks sold from the re- ! hneries since September 9 and costing about $l.5O per cWt. more than former ly, all this increased price going d. 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 $9.5o per cwt. at the rehneries
 Cent a Pound Maximum Profit.
 As before, the retail dealer may charge not more than one cent 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 $955 for a hundred pounds of sugar delivered, and this, plus the dealers profit of a cent pound will make the retailers selling price $lO55, which, of course, will amount to eleven cents a single pound, In selling more than one pound, how ever. the dealer will hereafter be re- qured to multiply the number of pounds by the cost price 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 $.O953 plus two cents, or 21 cents; for three pounds, three times $.0953 plus three cents. or 32 cents; for five pounds, five times $.0953 plus five cents, or B cents for ten pounds, ten times $.O953 plus ten cents, or $1.06, and so on ac- cOrd1ng 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 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 hOnOrlng canning certificates for lavishly large amounts and exceeded the whole quar- ter's supply on their statements requisitiOning sugar for Juls'. and Au- gust they got practically none in Sep tember. The Food Administration is- sued to the retail stores for the last quarter about twelve million pounds of sugar, and inasmuch as this is four times the amount available for them
 
 his October allowance to be about one quarter of what he secured in July or August or in September, if he did se- cure any that month.
 Certificates Being Issued.
 The Food Administration is now busy issuing and checking the new statements for retailers, and after | these are checked the October issue of ! the new series of sugar. certificates l will be mailed the retailers. Although l thesM new statements contain a clause l from the former agreement whereby l the dealer signing promises to sell in ! not larger than two or five pound lots | to &ty and country dwellers respec- 1 tiveN, the dealer may ignore this l 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- fneEtes destroyed and because of sub marane sinkings between Cuban and i AmeE1can ports the sugar shortage re- mains serious and will continue so un- til the first of next year. and even aft CT New Years 1t 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 a common table"