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Show SIGAR, CANDY AND CANNING Crowing demands for confection-. nr following the nation wide ao of prohibition of alcoholic beverages shows n .permanent plnco for this form of sweet food on tho American bill of fnio. T.ilio this with tho hosewlfo's annual an-nual season of making Jellies, pre- serves nnd the winter supply of canned fruits nnd vegetables and we hno tho foundation for tho growing, sugnr scarcity. But ahead the California cop ot beets Is being converted Into sugar for tho 1919-20 supply, and as the wno of sugar pioductlon extends across to the central western states, sugar will be abundant. Louisiana will begin enno uushlng and before the end of tho year theie will bo sugar for everybody, especially espe-cially If tho sugnr board has authority author-ity to handle thu Immense ctop com-Iiik com-Iiik in from Cuba. A general strike was ptomoted against tho sugnr industty In Cuba, that would havo threatened an Am-ci Am-ci lean buso of supply, but the Cuban government put all tho stilku leaders in jail nnd the strike ended. ' The principle has been firmly established es-tablished by the sugnr boaid that all sugars of tho saitiu crop bo treated exactly nllko as to market prlco and tho nuthoiily of the boaid to fix pik-es will bo extended to VJ20. |