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flow of supplies. Our national sugar supply does not come from stocks, but arrives in monthly 

 amounts, and any attempt to provide ahead results in shortage. Any attempts to accumulate 

 stocks in the interim between now and July 1, will be useless and may lead to difficulties, for the 

 Food Administration will construe any such attempts by dealers and manufacturers as hoarding 

 and upon conviction as punishable by fine or imprisonment. While in law the same rule might 

 be applied to householders, the Food Administration proposes to rest upon the honor and co- 

 operation of the householders not to hold more than a thirty day supply upon the basis of three 

 pounds per person in the household. 



In addition to giving the quantities on hand, the statements which will be required from 

 dealers and manufacturers in the above groups will give the following further information upon 

 honor. In the case of Group A — that is, candy, soft drinks, et cetera, must show the amount 

 of sugar used during the months of July, August and September, 1917, and certificates will, if 

 the statements are correct, be based upon 50% of such average use. Ice cream makers will 

 be entitled to 75%. A certificate will be issued separately for each month's purchases. 



Group 5- — That is, commercial canners, et cetera, will be given certificates for their neces- 

 sary requirements, but any re-sale of sugar by them, except under the express direction of the 

 local Food Administrator, will constitute a violation of the regulations and subject them to 

 closing of business for the war. 



Any sugar in hand at the end of the season must be placed at the disposal of the local 

 Administrator. The Food Administration appeals to this group to economize on consumption 

 in every direction. 



Group C — That is, public eating places, will be issued certificates upon the basis of three 

 pounds for each ninety meals served. This includes all public eating place uses of sugar. 



Group D — That is, bakers, will receive certificates for 70% of the average amount used 

 during July, August and September, 1917, or, alternatively, 70% of that used in the month of 

 June, 1918. 



Group £^ — That is, retail stores, will receive for July purchases certificates based upon the 

 average of sugar sold during the combined three months, April, May and June, 1918. Re- 

 tailers must not sell sugar to any of the other groups; that is, to no one except householders, 

 without taking up the certificates of such persons. They must not sell more than two pounds 

 at any one time to any town customer or more than 5 pounds at any one time to any country 

 customer. The latter may, however, be varied by the local Administrator to persons remote 

 from town. The retailer will do his best not to sell more than 3 pounds per person per month 

 to householders, whose cooperation with the retailer is earnestly sought. 



Retailers may, as at present, sell 25 pounds of sugar to any one household for home can- 

 ning upon the householder's certifying that he has not bought elsewhere and agreeing to 

 return any balance unused for this purpose. The householder can obtain more than 25 pounds 

 upon approval of local Administrator, if suppUes are available. 



It will be seen by this plan that there is no direct rationing of the householder. It would 

 cost the Government $5,000,000 to put the householder on a ration card and would take the 

 services of 100,000 people to carry it out. We cannot afford the labor or money, and if house- 

 holders will cooperate it can be avoided. 



No wholesaler or refiner can sell any sugar whatsoever unless he receives the certificate 

 above mentioned. Any person, in the above five groups, who does not file his statement, 

 will receive no sugar during the war, and action will at once be taken against an}'' sugar he 

 may have on hand in excess of thirty days supply and he will be charged with hoarding. We 

 ask the cooperation of all trades in our purpose, which is simply to secure justice in 

 distribution. 



BRITISH SUGAR TRADE IN I9I7 



The following review of the British sugar trade has been published in one of the 

 leading Glasgow newspapers: 



The business of the year 1917 having, as in 1915 and 1916, remamed under State 

 control, the movements which have occurred have been mainly of a restrictive character and 

 therefore of little interest. The yearly imj>orts of raw sugar, which in pte-war times usually 



