St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-12-07

ed margins will help in guidance.
Retailers are allowed to add as their
profit above delivered cost, the fol-
lowing:
Victory -four, wheat flour, original
mill packages, half barrel quantities
and more, $1.O0 to $1.2O per barrel;
quarter barrel quantities and less,
$1.35 to $3.50 per barrel; broken
mill packages, l IL cents per pound.
Barley flour, rye -four, and corn
flour, original mill packages, Is to
% per cent; broken mill packages,
l 1-2 cents per pound.
Rice -four, IS to % per cent.
Corn meal, original mill packages
Is to % per cent; bulk, IL cents
per pound.
Hominy, 18 to % per cent.
Sugar, all kinds, in bulk, 1 IL
cents per pound. In refiner's origi-
nal packages, l cent per pound.
Evaporated milk, unsweetened, Is
to % per cent.
Dat meal and rolled oats, bulk
1-2 cents per pound. Original mill
packages, 20 to Is per cent.
Rice, beans, white or colored
starch, edible; corn syrup, tins. 20
to 25 per cent.
Canned corn, peas and tomatoes
, standard grades, rs to 80 per cent.
Canned Salmon chums, pink and
red, and canned sardines, domestic
Is to 80 per cent.
Dried fruit, raisins, prunes and
peaches, Is to 80 per cent.
Lard, pure leaf and lard substi.
tutes, in bulk, S to 6 cents per pound
in tins, 18 to 20 cents.
Breakfast bacon, whole pieces, &
to cents per pound.
Heavy bacon, whole pieces, to 6
cents per pound.
Hams, smoked whole, 6 to Z cents
per pound. ~
In quoting sliced ham and bacon
add usual differential to cover actual
shrinkage.
Original mill packages" as used
above means where retailer sells pro-
duct in the same mill container as
received by him.
Broken mill packages" means
when retailer removes contents from
original mill packages and sells In
smaller quantities.
By other special regulations the
retailers maximum margins have
also been fixed in accordance with
the following list:
Potatoes, white or Irish, 25 to sc
per cent.
Onions, Is to 80 per cent.
o~1l {vA M
mott Z to 8 cents per dozen.
Butter, 6 to cents per pound.
Butter substitutes, oleomargarine
nut margarine, ETC., to s cents pei
pound.
Cheese, American, chedders, twin
flats, daisies, long horns, and Y. AS
Z to 8 cents per pound.
The retailer must have the benefit
of fractions of cent, as follows: II
sugar cost delivered 1851 per hun
dred, or 9.61 cents per pound, he
would add $3.50 to his selling price
I'LL cents per pound. He would be
allowed IL cents for one pound
Two pounds would be 1922 cents.
He would be allowed % cents. Five
pounds would be $3.50 cents. He
would be allowed Sc cents. In other
words, multiply the exact delivere'
cost of one pound plus l IL cents b..
the number of pounds sold. II the
result ends in a fraction the retaile
is allowed the full cent. The same
rule applies to other commodities.
1t is understood that delivered
! cost means the cost at the railroad
or other terminal in the town where
f, retailer lives. II retailer Is not To-
, Gated in railroad or steamboat town
/ he may include the cost Of hauling In
delivered cost. The first price is FOL
cash and carry stores, the second FOL
service stores.
The United States Food Admins
! tration 10 working out . system OF
retail profit for meat.