The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-26
STATE USES TEN MILLION
POUNDS MONTHLY

ne sugar u!SLElUutlOll SYSTEM Is
success as far as Louisiapa's part ir
its operation is concerned. July &c
was the time limit for applicants
and the distribution of certificates
for the July supply Of sugar. Up to
that time there had been approxima
tely ten thousand applicants. The
vast majority were dealers. The SUI
gar distributed amounted to about
100000 pounds. AS this represents
an allowance far below normal times
Louisiana does and will use 10000,
900 pounds a month. A fine sugar
crop in this state yields only one
fourth of that quantity. L
The preserving question is still
opep and continues to be one of the
main problems before the State Food
Administration.
3 Large and early fig and peach
crops, coupled with the governments
campaign of education, has induce
more preserving and canning than
the State has ever known. he deal
ers had failed to anticipate the rush
and many were averse to drawing on
their supply to fill the special pre-
serving permit preference over all
would be issued to the dealers. 7 he
dealers urged that they had not con-
sidered preserving in their calcula
tons and requirements, that any
sales for preserving purposes would
cramp their supply for their patrons,
that the latter had already been cut
down to three pounds per person per
month and would not do with less,
and that relief must be more gene
raj and immediate. The Food Ad-
niinistraaion found the point we'll
taken and has altered it's position to
meet the emergency. Dealers and
other interested are now notified
that they will be allowed sugar to re-
place all the sugar distributed for
preserving purposes.
While the Government encourages
preserving, in order to avoid the
waste of any fruits or vegetables, it
is at the same time emphasizing that
canning and preserving may be eff
ficiently done with less sugar than
was formerly thought necessary Pro-
cesses have been worked out by which
fruit and fruit juices may be con-
served without sugar, some of the
preparations requiring only a small
quantity of sugar at the times of con-
sumption in order to make them pal
atable to the sweetest tooth. Jno. M.
Parker, Food Administrator for Louis
lana, obtained 1000 copies of the
sugarless preserving pamphlets and
has distributed them among all the
food and home economics officials
and teachers throughout the state.
The first arrest for sugar boarding
in New Orleans has been made by De-
partment of Justice agents in con-
junction with food administration in
spectors. The suspect is John Sprada,
who, despite his name, is said to be
of German extraction. He is saloon
keeper in Algiers and it is charged
that he was legally entitled to only
thirty-two pounds of sugar as his al
lowance for month. Ninety pounds
Of sugar was found in his kitchen.
His case will go before the federal
grand jury. This is the second time
the federal court has been invoked
by the Food Administration, the first
being -four boarding instance in one
of the parishes of Southwest Louis ,
lana.
There is considerable inquiry all
over the state with reference to
changes in the -four regulations as |
result of bumper wheat crop which
will soon be harvested. So far as the !
State Food Administration knows, !
the only change to date is to permit |
the use Of rye -four as part of the sub
stitutes in war bread, five per cent of /
rye being now permitted. In view of
the fact that the Food Administration
is committed to the wise policy of /
building up three months reserve
behind the battle line in France and /
Belgium, it is not thought that con-
will be relaxed to any con-
siderable extent. The final verdict will I
depend upon the observa-
ions Herbert Hoover makes during
his trim tn EI1rope Jt has haop on