The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-24
ASKS A BIC CUT
IN USE OF SUGAR
Food Administration Limits
Consumers to 3 Lbs. Per
Capita a Month
SUPPLY LOWERED

Soda Fountains and the Manufacture of
Other Temperance Drinks to Be Linn
tied to so PEI Cent rs Per Cent for
Ice Cream
WASHINGTON, June 24.-The food
administration has asked the consumers
of the nation to restrict their use of
use of sugar to three pounds per month
per capita and announced that after
July ! further restrictions would be
placed ON manufacturers which would
affect many branches of trade.
Less essential manufactured products
will then be allowed only so per cent
of their normal sugar requirements in
stead of 50 per cent as at present. This
ruling will include the producers of So
called soft drinks, such as soda water.
Manufacturers of ice cream will be
restricted to 70 per cent of the normal
supply, with the exception that where
ice cream is made on premises where
soda water and other soft drinks are
sold, the allotment will be cut to 80
per cent, as it would be difficult to diff
ferentiate between the sugar used for
ice cream and that for soft drinks in
such establishments.
The food administration. it was an
lnounced, does differentiate, however.
between the preservation of fruits for
soda fountains and the preservation of
fruits in the form of jam and canned
goods. Manufacturers of preserved
I fp,, 10 80.
erned by the 80 per cent limitation.
This places all soda fountain business
on an equitable basis. Concerning other
restrictions, the statement reads
. Manufacturers of grape juice will be
allowed only 30 per cent of their normal
sugar requirements The food admins
tration will possibly allow additional
quantities If il seems necessary to take
care of the grape crop or to prevent fer
mentation, but viii make no increase
merely that the manufacturer NAV have
a more palatable product.
Every manufacturer using sugar i
required to present to the seller a Ger
tlhcate from the federal food admins
TRAITOR for the state in which he operates
Only the following products, aftel
July /, will be given 100 per cent OF
their sugar requirements: Ant poison
apple butter, canned vegetables, canned
fruits, explosives, glycerine, insecticides
meats, capsules, catsup, chill sauce
mincemeats, drugs, for medical pur
poses, packers of preserved fruits.
The following businesses and com
modities will be in the less essentia
class: Barrooms, brewers, Californi;
fruit cider, cough drops, dental prepare
, tions, dessert powder. druggists who bu,
: sugar for reducing concentrated svrul
: honey manufacturers, hotel bars, eela
tine, ginger ale, glue, grape juice. ic
/, lcream cone manufacturers, ice erear
powder, jelly powder, marsh mallon
] matted milk, maple sugar compound
molasses and syrups, patent medicine,
all pickles, rollers for printing presse,
{ saloons, preserving salmon eggs for sal
: to fishermen, table syrups, vinegar
whiskey (blending3.
The food administration believes tina
{ it viii be possible despite the lack G
tonnage and a decrease in the amour
| of sugar expected from Cuba, to mar
l tain the three-pound per month ratio
9 for household consumers Tests ha,
; been made which show that this entail
I no great privation and that, in fact,
t represents about the amount that is b.
0 ing used by most families at this time