Show SENT TO FRANCE American Price Rigidly Regulated by United Stat States s Food Administration Continued from last last issue Control of Cane Refiners' Refiners Profits Immediately upon the establishment establish establish- establishment ment of ot the food administration Mr Hoover Hoo said an examination was a amade made of the c and profits of refill in lug and und It was finally determined d that the spread between the cost of raw and the sale of refined cane s l sugar nr should be limited ll to per hun hundred red pounds The war pre differential had averaged a about 85 83 cents and increased costs were found round to have been Imposed ed eel by the war In increased cost of refining refining re re- re fining losses cost of bags s labor Jabor Insurance insurance ance Interest and other things rather more than cover the difference After prolonged negotiations the refiners were placed under agreement establishing establishing establishing lishing these limits on October 1 and anil anything over this amount to be agreed extortionate un under er the lawIn lawIn lawIn law In the course of these Inn Investigations It was found b by canvass of the Cuban producers that their sugar had during the first nine months of the past year sold for tor an average of ot about per hundred f f. f o o. o b. b Cuba to which dut duty and freight added to the refiners refiners' cost amount to about GG per hundred The average a sale aale price of granulated by various refineries according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to our Investigation was about per hundred or a differential of In ln reducing the differential to there was n saving sa to the public of 54 51 cents per hundred Had such n a differential differential differential dif dif- been In use from the 1st of January 1017 1917 the public would hn have saved tl In the first nine months of the year about |