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Show Ir: ';r' BUYING SUGAR. ' : 'V ; As The Standard-Examiner has said, the most discouraging phase of the sugar problem has been the threatened injury to the panning and preserving industries, and, as a consequence, damage to the fruit business. To solve this difficulty to the extent of lessen- ing the prospective loss, the government has bought Argentine sugar RVld is importing 34.000,000 pounds to be distributed exclusively to I commercial cannere and preservers. While this will offer relief in one direction, it will not provide the Avay for home preserving. The housewives of the country each year store away great quantities of fruits of their own preserving. This season, with sugar almost unobtainable, un-obtainable, they are without one. of the essentials to the storing of an appetizing dessert for winter use, although the government is advising advis-ing the women that sugar is not necessary to preserving. |