Connecticut western news., 1918-10-03
NEW SUGAR IN
 CGN;;;lEgTICUT WILL
 COST ELEVEN CENTS
Consumers to Get Benefit Of Fractional Gents on
 Large Purchases.

Sugar should not cost Connecticut housewives more than eleven cents a pound, according to Robert Scoville, Connecticut's Federal Food sAdminis- trator, who. added. In statement made today, that on much sugar slev- en cents was really an excessive price for some time to come. The so-called new. sugar, stocks sold from the re- fneries since September 9 and costing about $1.50 Der cwt more than former ly, all this increased price going ds- rect to the producers who were found | to be entitled to increased prices, has not yet arrived in Connecticut to any large extent, and the old sugar must be sold at the former reduced price Of about ten cents a pound as long as 1t lasts. The new sugar will cost Se.oO per cwt. at the rehneries.
 Cont Pound Maximum ProMt. AS before, the retail dealer may charge not more than one cent pound profit, but under the new rules the consumer and not the retailer is going to get the benefit of fractional cents The highest freigh point in Connecti- ! cut will pay $9.55 for a hundred pounds of sugar delivered, and this, plus the dealers profit of cent a pound, will make the retailers selling price $.1055, which, of course, will amount to eleven cents a single pound. In selling more than one pound, how ever, the dealer will hereafter be re- quired to multiply the number Of pounds by the cost price to him and then add one cent for every pound In | the transaction. AS an example, sugar in Hartford, which has a freight rate from New York of IS cents per cwt., will cost eleven cents for one pound ; | for two pounds, two times $O953 plus two cents, or q cents; for three pounds, three times S.0953 plus three cents, or 32 cents; for five pounds, five times S.O953 plus five cents, or 53 cents for ten pounds. ten times S.0953 plus ten cents, or $106, and so on ac- cording to the number of pounds sold.
 May Sell Weeks Supply.
 Retailers are no longer bound by the two and five pound sales rule for city and country dwellers, but may sell any family a weeks supply of sugar, always passing the sale on the require ment of two pounds per month pel member of the family.
 States October Allotment.
 Connecticut's sugar allotment for October Is about four million, four I hundred thousand pounos. With res taurants and other public eatint 1 places, including institutions, and boarding houses taken care of, togeth' CT with bakers, confectioners, Ice cream makers and other more or less essential users of sugar, there remain about three million pounds of sugar for distribution among the retail stores of the state. Because the retail stores as whole, were carless in honorinG canning certificates for lavishly large l amounts and exceeded the whole guar ters supply on their statements requisitioning sugar for July and Au gust they got practically none in Sep tember The Food Administration is sued to the retail stores for the las quarter about twelve million pounds of sugar, and inasmuch as this Is foul times the amount available for then in October, each retailer may expec his October allowance to be about one quarter of what he secured in July ol August or in September, if he did SC cure any that month.
 Certificates Being Issued.
 The Food Administration Is nov busy issuing and checking the nev statements for retailers, and afte these are checked the October issue O the new series of sugar certificate will be mailed the retailers. Although these new statements contain claus from the former agreement whereb, the dealer signing promises to sell fl not larger than two or five pound lot to city and country dwellers respec ., lively, the dealer may ignore thi agreement, which was being printed a the time that the rule was rescinded.
 Why Sugar is Scarce.
 Because the Hawaiian and West Tn |. dian. sugar crop Is less than normal because French sugar lands are over run by the Huns and the sugar re fneries destroyed and because of sut ' marine sinkings between Cuban an American ports the sugar shortage re mains serious and will continue so UT til the first of next year, and even aft CT New Years 1t Is not at all certai !. but that the American public will hay to observe strict economy of its suga !. allowance, which is part of the world !. now pooled among all the Al