The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
TO DISREGARD COST
IN ARMY FOOD SALE
Price List for the 10 Districts
in q. s. Are Set by War
Department.
POsTMAsTEBs AS AGENTS
Redistribution Is Going On in
Preparation for Flood Of
Orders Expected.

WARRINGTON, Aug. s.--The War De-
partment made public to-day a complete
price list on all subsistence stores avail
able for sale TO the public through the
parcel post or through municipal selling
agencies
Costs OF the commodities to the Gov
eminent. the Department said, had
been disregarded entirely in fixing the
prices Of sale. which are materially low
er than prevailing market rates.
The prices quoted are 4. o. b., and
from storage points, in each of the thir-
teen districts into which the country is
divided for War Department subsistence
purposes. The Department now is re-
distributing the food supplies in the
thirteen areas In order that each may
have its proportion per population of
the seventy-two articles offered for pub
lie sale.
The price tables include the price per
lean or individual units in each case
and also the price per case or larger
containeg. 1t also shows the gross
weight per can and per case In order
that the public may arrive at the price
1t will have to pay by adding parcel
post rates from the nearest distributing
point to the home OF the consumer to
tho {. o. b. prices quoted.
Freight to he Added.
Municipal selling agencies will COM
pute freight charges on these shipments
to be added to the price quoted by the
War Department. On the parcels post
distribution no orders will be received
direct by the War Department, but only
through the Post ONCE Department
which will make requistion for the
supplies by case or larger package, the
postmasters in turn breaking these ship
ments up into unit packages of a single
can or several cans.
Sales to municipalities at the new
prices will begin as soon as the surplus
property officers at the various zone
supply Offices and depots have received
the quotations made public to-day. Sales
to individuals through the parcels post
will be inaugurated August IS, and be-
fore that time all postmasters will have
a price quotation list from which the
consumer may order.
The Department emphasized that no
change in the policy Of sales to munich
palities had been made. the only altera-
ton being in prices. II a municipality is
unable to buy or sell foodstuffs owing
ment will ship to II upon consignment
subsistence stores In not less than case
or carton lots, the goods to be paid for
or returned within thirty days from date
Of receipt.
Shipments of this character, however
will be made only when the Mayor or
head of the local government either acts
as the Federal Governments agent and
| supervises the distribution of the food
or appoints some one to so act.
what Prices VIII BE.
l Although only seventy-two food sta
pies are enumerated in the price list. the
itemized quotations owing to the variety
of packing are quite lengthy. Quota
lions on some OF the leading commodities
are: Bacon. S4.15 per can of II pounds !;
corned beef, 55 cents for can of 1876
pounds: baked beans, cents for can
OF ~ pounds; sailed corn, 10 cents per
2k pound can: dry beans. s6.49 per
100 pounds; crackers, and 6 cents a
pound; army flour. Sc per 100 pounds :
macaroni. 7 cents per / u pounds; rolled
oats IL cents per pounds seeded rails
ins. 10 cents per pound rice. 1914 per
hundred pounds; tomatoes. 9 cents per
2 pound can. and white corn meal, $3.50
per 100 mounds