The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-05-06
Certificates Necessary for
Many Persons Using SUI
gar in Manufacturing
REPORT TO FOOD
ADMINISTRATION
Be Obtained in Specified Amounts
Restriction in Force in May and June,
Perhaps Longer.
Perhaps Longer.

ST. ALBANS, May Con and after
May Is, 1918, wholesale and retail deal
ers in sugar shall not ship or deliver
sugar to any person or concern engaged
in any business of manufacturing, bot
thing, packing or preparing products
in which sugar is used, until h" hos Sc
cured from the purchaser a certificate
or certificates duly endorsed by the
buyer and issued to the buyer by the
federal food administrator for the state,
certifying that the total amount of sug
ar to be sold or delivered will not give
the buyer more than his fair share Of
the sugar then available for distribu-
tion in the United States Announce
ment to this effect was made last night
at the office of Acting State Federal
Food Administrator John T. Cushing.
This rule shall not apply to shipments
or deliveries on bona fda contracts
enforceable at law made prior to May
10, 1918, nor does the rule apply TO
sales or deliveries to hotels, restaurants,
boarding houses or other public eating
houses whose products are sold for con
sumption on the premises, nor to whole
sale or retail dealers in sugar holding
q license from the United States Food
Adminlstra ton, nor to bakers and
cracker manufacturers holding a bak-
er s license.
In addition to these exemptions Ger
tifcates will not be required in sales
! to individual consumers, or in sales to
unlicensed retailers of sugar not en-
gagged in the manufacturing business
Neither will certificates be required
i in selling to licensed wholesalers. re-
tailers or bakers, even though they use
sugar in the manufacture of other prod
ucts. because the use of sugar by such
dealers will be controlled directly bv
: the license regulations.
Among the manufacturers in selling
to whom certificates must be required
are the following; but the list is not
absolutely complete; Apple butter
| beverage syrups, candy, catsup. cereals
chewing gum, chilli sauce. chocolate
| cocoa, condiments, confectionery. ex-
plosives, f1avoring extracts, fruit pre-
serves, fruit syrup, glveerine, honey, in
vert sugar, ice cream, jam Jelly, meat
products. medicines, preserves, pickles
soda water, soft drinks, svrups, to
bacco, wine
Other classes who must furnish Ger
titicatcs to the wholesaler or retaile
before sugar can be purchased are
Gamers. preservers and packers of CIV
cry kind of vegetables, fruit. milk anC
meat; soda water fountains and dis
penSers of soft drinks, bottlers of sof
drinks
i, The use of sugar is prohibited t,
leather tanners and manufacturers o
non-ediblc products and no certificate
will be issued to them
The effect of this rule is that no man
ufacturer using sugar will be permit
ted after May - to purchase withou
the surrender of authorized sugar dis
tribution certificates issued by tn
state food administrator Manufac
turers MAJ obtain certificates at tn
Office of Acting Food Administrator
t.. John I. Gushing in St. Adams, upo
delivery of the required sworn state
: ment which shows the amount of sue
ar to which manufacturer is entitled
Before certificates can be ISSUED
: manufacturers must make out def
4 mite report on the form prepared b
i the food administration, which can
/, secured on application to the Vernon
. administration Offices in St. Alban
e The sugar rationing plan as at preser
a contemplated will endure for the mont
e of May and june but it may becom
e necessary to continue it in effect fc
t July and August
+ Certificates will be issued by I'll
! state food administrator covering ii
g period from May - to July /, in az
h cordance with their sworn statement
Certificates will be issued in denomin;