St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-03
FOOD OFFICES FINE FEAT In d.
VIDING SUGAR.

The Louisiana Food Administers
ton has made another record. This
time the feat was in connection with
the sugar distribution system. The
sugar handlers have been divided in
to five classes, and the total applica-
tons exceed nine thousand. The
July certificates we're accompanied
by the promise that the August al
lotments would be issued about July
goth. The new certificates were
ready but the Government ordered
them held up for further orders.
The sugar shortage had become more
acute and there was need for reviar
ing the division and recasting the
distribution. When the new In
structions were telegraDhed the con-
sumption limit was reduced to two
pounds per person per month, and
Louisiana's allotment was scaled
from a little over ten million pounds
to a little over six million, and the
August cloth had to be cut to 1T. A
rush job was performed. The Ger
tificates to dealers, bakers and cat
ing places have gone out and the
supply left has been apportioned to
the industries in accordance with
their essentially status. Handlers
of sugar in a lumber of state say
that Louisiana made one Of the best
showings in the entire country. The
staff not only worked extra hours,
but expert adding machine operators
from the bank were enlisted and dll-
ed in the nights and Sundays. Jno.
NJ. Parker, Food Administrator for
Louisiana, is very proud OF the ser
vice his Office was able to perform.
The subtraction of another pound
from the already compressed sugar
rations was followed by very little
complaint, and compliance is al
ready general without the need Of
anything that sounded like COM
uand Factories, resorts, and other
urge sugar users have already learn
ed to use substitutes, such as honey
and syrups made from other pro-
ducts than sugar cane or beets. The
householders are not yet quite as
adept, but they are learning fast.
The encouragement among the home
bakers has passed and they are now
making bread, muffin and cakes with
out sugar and preparing fine pastry
with the substitutes. Preserving
and canning have been practiced
more extensively than in many years,
owing to the bountiful fruit crop,
but the pack was completed with
much less sugar Cooking the fruits
a little longer makes it possible to
dispense with considerable sugar,
and the Government and other agen-
cies disseminated education in pro-
cesses which almost did away with
the need for sweetening.
The changes in the -four program
have not yet been cabled by Herbert
Hoover, who made personal survey
of the situation in Europe so as to
lay his plans most efficiently. In the
meantime the food administrators Of
the zone including Texas. Arkansas,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennes-
see, with Arkansas and Alabama as
voluntary allies, has agreed upon alb
solutely uniform -four regulations
for the entire section. Certificates
covering various phases of wheat con-
servation are being drawn up and
these will be made Immediately ef-
fective and will be enforced alike in
all the states named. This will do
away with the border troubles which
have not only been very annoying
but which gave opportunity to the
comparatively few unpatriotic mer-
chants to profit upon the loyalty Of
others. The United States Food Ad-
ministration has started in the new
crop flour program with esta blished
definite fair prices at every mill
point in the United States. The cost
of packages and transportation Is