Show Details for Obtaining Canning Sugar Final details on how consumers will obtain sugar for home dinning canning under a simplified plan have hav been released by bytho bythe bythe the tho Office of ot Price Administration I According to the revised program stamps numbered 15 15 and 16 in War Wari i Ration Book I will each be good for five I pounds of ot sugar for tor home canning Con COn- Consumers COnsumers Consumers sumers will obtain this sugar by taking their ration books books' to retailers rather than applying to local boards for f r sugar coupons as was announced earlier These stamps become became valid vaUd on May 24 and may maybe maybe maybe be used for obtaining canning sugar through October 31 1943 1043 This amount of 01 sugar will win put up as much fruit as most families will win be beable beable beable able to can cnn or Intend to use At the allowed rate of one pound of sugar to four our quarts of finished fruit the ten- ten pound-per-person pound allowance would pro pro- provide provide provide vide each person with 40 quarts of can can- canned canned canned ned fruit Where home canners require less than 10 pounds of ot sugar but an amount other than five pounds they will apply to their local boards for the exact amount needed The application must be In writ- writ writIng writing Ing and may be sent by mall man In exceptional cases where consumers consumer require more than the tho ten pounds of ot canning sugar obtainable with sugar stamps in War Ration Book Dook I application application tion for additional allotments may be made mado to tho the local ration board Application to the board must be In one writing writing one application per pel family unit and may be mailed or presented In IR 1 person Each application must be ac accompanied ac- ac companied by by Ration Book I for foi any person for whom the application Is made and should sh Uld Iii In addition n provide th the board with the following Information 1 The number of 01 quarts or pounds of processed foodS the applicant and members of ot his family unit have pro pro- produced produced produced and since March 1 of ot this year with sugar already obtained for tor home can can- canning cannin canning ning nin either cither with stamps or by previous application to the tho board I 2 2 The amount of ot sugar on hand for lor home canning I 3 The Tho amount of ot sugar that has been obtained for tor making Jams and Jellies 4 4 A statement that all aU sugar obtain obtain- J or ed cd for homo home canning will be used for forI this purpose and at the prescribed rate I The board will Issue sugar canning coupons or Certificates for ten pounds less than the total requirement since ten pounds may be bought with stamps 15 and 16 and will record on the cover of each persons person's ration book the amount and date of sugar allotted In no fose dase can the tho total allotment exceed 25 pounds per person |