Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-06-04
kkNuFAC URERS
OBLIGED TO SECURE
SUGAR CERTIFICATES
Food Administration Urges Increased
Use Of Milk for Children - Asks
Farmers Release Wheat.
Orono. Maine, May
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MA According to the
R$686$A new sugar regula-
HmITN tons announced BY
ESis1b the United States
SEV Food Administration
through Federal
Food Administrator
Leon S. Merrill no manufacturer US
Ing sugar in his products can obtain
sugar without surrender Of an auth
ortzed distribution sugar certificate.
Certificates will be issued on receipt
OF sworn statement from the manu-
facturer Of the amount Of sugar he
used last year and application for the
sworn statement form and the certtn-
cate must be made to Food Admins
traitor Merrill at Orono.
Under the regulations no retail gro
Ger shall sell sugar to manufacturers
using sugar in their products after
May 18th without the required Ger.
tMicate. This does not apply to bona
flde legal contracts made prior to May
18th.
The seller of sugar 10 required 70
cancel and return to the Federal Food
Administrator issuing them. all sugar
certificates upon which he made sales
/ Of sugar.
Sugar For Home Canning.
Householders and consumer custo-
mers are required to ALI out oertin-
cate in order to secure sugar for can
ming purposes and these certificates
will be provided by the retail dealers
In each community.
Food Administrator Merrill wishes
1t distinctly understood that the 50.
gar certificates are not for general
distribution and must be retained BY
the dealers to be filled out by the con-
sumner customers at the time purchas.
es OF sugar are made.
Milk Important Food.
Mix Is one OF tho most important
food sources the human race posses.
ses. For the proper nourishment Of
the child It Is absolutely indispensable
and Its use should be kept up In the
diet a. long as possible. Not only does
it contain all the essential food ele-
ments in the most available form for
ready digestion. but the recent scien-
tiic discoveries show It to be espe.
cially rich In certain peculiar proper
ties that alone render growth posi-
BILE. This essential quality makes It
also Of special value tn the sick room.
In hospitals 1t has also been shown
that the wounded recover more rapid
ly when they have milk.
For the purpose Of stimulating
growth, and especially In children,
butter fat and other constituents Of
mill have no substitutes. Therefore.
says the Food Administration. every
parent owes to himself and to his
family the duty of providing requisite
amounts OF milk. butter. cheese and
other dairy products. During the last
winter, when much agitation was had
In some large cities over the price Of
milk, which was advanced from two
to three cents per quart By reason OF
the rapid rise in.the cost q feed and
labor. many families among the poor
Were found giving their children tea
and coffee instead OF milk Such meth.
DDS Of feeding fail TO nourish tho
child properly.
In spite Of the shortage of milk In
Germany, that country has at all has
ards maintained The milk ration OF
the children and In the hosp3tals.
even though to do 20 has meant that
the adult population he's had TO foes'
| 80 largely IL use. In 3. "sakety Arst
health campaign II must b rsmsm-
bered thAk Il should b "childreu
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