Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1918 — OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS

Indiana’s allotment of sugar totals 8,883,000 pounds for the month of August. This is a reduction of.practically one-third. Certificates issued by the Federal Food Administration In July reached a total of 14,021,865 pounds, upon* which the distribution totaled 13,012,750 pounds. Certificates''to retailers for August will be based on 2 pounds per capita per month. Hotels, restaurants and .public eating houses shall make similar retrenchment by making 2 pounds of sugar sufficient for 90 meals. Heretofore, the per capita allowance has been 3 pounds per month, and the same quantity has been permitted for each 90 meals served in public eating houses. Certificates for canning purposes will be Issued subject to the same restriction that has obtained heretofore —that each purchaser be required to present a certificate upon ♦ which appears the OK. of the local food administrator, or his authorized deputy.

For the present the issuing of certificates to manufacturers in class "A,” which Includes soda fountains, soft drink manufacturers* candy manufacturers, bottlers and • various other less essentials, will be eliminated entirely. Reports on the Nation’s egg supplies lately received by the U. 8. Food Administration, show that the number of eggs in storage in the United > States on July 1 was practically the same as on July 1, 1917. With this'condition, It is Interesting to note that consumption had increased about 17 per cent indicating that production must also have increased in about the same degree. Imports and exports are a negligible factor compared with the •enormous size of the egg trade within the United States. Prices received by producers for eggs have been'.gratifying, according to reports from jthe country egg markets, and poultry markets are still short of birds, due, it Is believed, to the high level of egg prices. The increasing difficulties in securing sugar are said to have impelled many manufacturers, bottlers, soda fountain operators and others normally using sugar, , to resort to the use of saccharin. The use of saccharin is deleterious to health, and in violation of the laws of Indiana. ... 1 r Exports of beef products from the United States aggregated 96,982,000 pounds during May, 1918, which is the highest figure ever reached.in

By Dr. Harry E. Barnard,

Federal Food Administrator for Indiana

month in the history of the country. - More than 96 per cent, of the total went to the four European allies. Their diminished live-stock production largely accounts for the increased demand and explains the need for beef conservation in the United States. » & Moskowitz of Evansville, a poultry shipper, was permitted to make a contribution of SSOO to war charities in lieu of suspending business for a week. He admitted a charge of Improperly feeding poultry enroute from Evansville to New York, the chicken feed having included sand and gravel. Owing to the large amount of soft* corn last fall there was a general heavy feeding, with a consequent large increase in the weight of hogs when they arrived at market. Export orders were filled with fatter and heavier hogs than the European, populations had been accustomed to, and foreign buying agencies novf request a return to the customary weights. , The Gary Baking Company of Gary, Indiana, on its confession of using an insufficient amount of substitutes with wheat flour, was permitted to pay to local war charities a contribution of >SOO. Charles G. Vahl, a baker of Brownstown, Indiana, who bad been warned repeatedly, admitted that he had failed to use the required amount of substitutes, and, as a result, C. H. Wlethoff, federal food administrator for Jackson county, closed Vahl’s business' for 90 days.