The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-21

were a. follows:
producer and the Insurance OF an ade-
Quate future supply.
These foreign orders are placed
upon the basis of cost of hogs to the
packers.
As the result Of long negotiations
between this body and the Packers
Committee. representing the As to so
packers participating In foreign or
ders, together with the Allied buyers,
all under the ChairInanship of the
Food Administration, the following un-
dertaking has been given by the pack
ers:
In view of the undertakings on the
part Of the Food Administration with
regard to the co-ordinated purchases
Of pork products, covered in the at
tached, It Is agreed that the packers
participating In these orders will un-
dertake not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed minimums
for the month Of November, that is
\hily minimum OF e17.t0 per hundred
pounds on average OF packers droves,
excluding throw-outa "srhrow-outs"
to be defined ~ pigs under $50
pounds, stays. boars, thin sows and
skips. Further that no hogs of any
kind shall be bought, except throw
outs, at less than $3.50 per hundred
pounds. The average of packers'
droves to be construed as the average
of the total sales In the market Of all
hogs for a given day. All the above
to be based on Chicago
We agree that q committee shall be
appointed by the Food Administration
to check the daily operations In the
various markets with view to super
vision and demonstration of the carry
ing out Of the above
The ability Of the packers to carry
out this Arrangement will depend on
there being a normal marketing Of
hogs based upon the proportionnte To-
crease over the receipts of last year.
The Increase In production appears to
be q maximum Of about Is per cent.
and we can handle such an Increase.
II the producers Of hogs should, ~
they have In the past few weeks, pre-
maturely market hogs In such increas-
ing numbers ;6vef the above II IL en-
tirely beyond the ability Of the pack
ers to maiHtain these minimums, and
therefore we must have the co-opera-
tion Of the producer himself to main
tain these results. It 10 q physical
impossibility for the capacity Of the
packing houses to handle q similar
over-flood Of hogs and to nnd = market
for the output The packers are anx-
ious to co-opsrAte with the producers
in maintaining stabllization Of price
and to see that producers receive
fair price for their products.
(SIgned) THOS. e. WILSON. g
Chairman Packers' Committee
The plan embodied above was adopt
ed by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint
ed q COMMITTEES. comprising Mr.. Thom-
as e. Wilson, chairman OF the Pack
ers' Committee: Mr.. Everett Brown,
president Of the Chicago Livestock Ex-
change; Major Roy Of the Food Ad-
minlstration, Mr.. Louis D. Hall Of the
Bureau Of Markets, to undertake the
supervision Of the execution Of the
plan In the various marketA Commits
sion men are asked to cooperate In
carrying out the plan embodied In the
packers agreement II must be EVIL
dent that offers by commission men to
sell hogs below the minimum estab-
lished above IL not fair, either to the
producer or the participating packerx
Mr.. Brown has undertaken on behalf
Of the commission men In the United
States that they will ioyslly support
the plan.
II = believed BY the conference that
this new plan, based as 1t Is upon a
positive minimum basis, will bring bet
ter results to the producer than aver
age prices for the month. It does not
limit top prices and should narrow
the margins necessary to country buy
ers in more variable marketA 1t Is
believed that the plan should work out
close to $1s averaga
Swine producers Of the country will
contribute to their own interest by
not flooding the market, for 1t must be
evident that II an excessive over per-
centage of hogs 10 marketed in any
one month price stabilization and con-
troll cannot succeed, and 1t Is certain
that producers themselves can contri-
butte materially to the efforts of the
conferences II they will do theiy mark
citing In as normal 4 way a. possible.
The whole situation as existing at
present demands q frank and explicit
assurance from the conferees repre-
sented-namely, that every possible
effort will be made to maintain live
hog rr''.s commensurate with swine
proc costs and reasonable SELL
inr in execution OF the declar-
ed =. y nf the Food Administration
to u'.. every agency In Its control to
secure Justice to the farmer.
The stabilization methods adopted