Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-28
GRAIN DEALERS MUST
 OPERATE UNDER LICENSE
Provided Their Annual Business Total :. Exceeds S1o0,oo0.

Since Feb. IS, every dealer in grain and feeds whose annual business ex- ceeds s1ea,o8o is presumed to be op- erating under a license from the United States food administration, as authorized by a proclamation by Presi-. dent Wilson on Jan. 10. The federal food administration for connecticut has announced the special rules and regulations which have been pronlul-
 manufacture, mixing and processing, importing, storage and distribution of feeding stuffs. These are the rules:
 Rule 5-No licensee selling wheat
 mill feed as a broker shall charge
 more than a reasonable brokerage not
 to exceed 25 cents per ton, and no
 licensee shall charge a brokerage on
 any wheat mill feed on which a brok-
 craze has already been charged.
 Rule 6-No licensee selling wheat
 mill feed, as a commission agent fof the sale of consigned wheat mill
 feeds, making sale, delivery and col
 lection, shall charge more than a req
 sonable commission not to exceed 50
 cents per ton, and no lcensee shall charge commission on any wheat mill
 feed on which a commission has al-
 ready been charged.
 AAdAC CfzANO-1ACSLSCS AJuy HE dIlQ sell
 ing wheat mill feed as a wholesaler
 or jobber shall charge more than a
 reasonable advance over the average
 bulk price at, mill {plus brokerage
 commission or inspection fees, actual
 ly paid freight and cost of sacks} of
 his stock of all such wheat mill feeds
 on hand or under contract not at that
 time contracted to be sold, such 2d-
 vance not to exceed the following
 shipment from mill or in transit, pay
 ment cash. demand draft or sight
 draft, S1 per ton shipment from mill
 or in transit, sale on arrival. draft
 terms, $1.5o per ton; sale ex- jobbers,
 warehouse upon arrival, draft terms,
 B per ton. In making sales on credit,
 not to exceed $1 per ton may be add ed to the margin which could be charged if sold on arrival draft terms. Rule S-Ne wholesale or iobbers shall sell wheat mill feed to any per son other than retail dealer. manu- facturer ora consumer, provided that he may sell to another wholesaler or Jobber if in making such sales he states to the buyer the price which was paid bulk mill for the particular wheat mill feeds sold. In such case 1 the buyer shall not sell such mill feed at more than the advances specified in rule ', over the bulk mill price of the particular wheat mill feed so pur- chased from another wholesaler or tobber. .e
 Rule 9-Rules ,, 6, ' and 8 shall not be construed to affect the validity oi
 any contracts made prior to Feb. 15 1918, unless invalid on. other grounds Every iicensee shall on or before Apri l,ils1S, file with the feeding stuff sec tion of the United States food admin istration, Washington, D. C., a memo randum of all thrilled and existine contracts for wheat mill feeds made prior to Feb. 15. 1918, and remainins unified March 15, 1918, and of stock on hand March 15, 1918, purchased or | such contracts.
 l Rule 10-Page g of amendments and additions to rules and regulations ik hereby amended by adding the follow. | ing para graph: f'The above prices shal be exclusive of any brokerage or com mission actually paid on accordance with feed rules 5 and 6. In case the iicensee maintains a separate jobbins department and performs jobbfns service. he may charge a reasonable i wholesalers margin in addition to tfls above prices, not to exceed the mar. gins permitted to wholesalers by sbe ! cial feed rule T." Jobers' margir should be calculated over average cos ! as defined in. rule of all the jobber's stock of the particular wheat mill feet on hand and under contract which h, has not already contracted to sell Rules are effective Feb. 15 They dt l not apply to past contracts.