The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-11-21

producer and the insurance OF an ade-
quate future supply.
These foreign orders are placed
upon he basis of cost OF hogs to the
packers.
Az the result OF long negotiations
be' this body and the Packers
Committee, representing the 45 to so
packers participating In foreign or.
ders, together with the Allied buyers,
all under the Craftsmanship of the
rood Administration, the following IN.
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-ordinatcd purchases
OF pork products. covered in the at
tached, 1t Is agreed that the packers
participating In these orders will un-
dertake not 10 purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed mlnlmums
Tor he month of November, that Is q
daily minimum OF $3.50 per hundred
pounds on average of packers drovesl
excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outsS
10 be define as pigs under 100
pounds, stays, boars, thin sows and
skips. Further, that no hogs OF any
kind shall Do bought. except throw,
outs, at less thun SlG.JO per hundred
pounds. The average OF packers'
droves to he construed as the average
OF the total saleS in the market of ain
hogs for n given day. All the above
10 be based on Chicago.
ANa uVran tIat n .,...t,,.. .t-tt -
appointed by the Food Administration
to check the daily operations in the
various markets with Il view to super,
vision and demonstration of the carry
ing out Of the above.
The ability of the packers to carrn
out this arrangement will depend on
there being n normal marketing oo
hogs based upon the ]proportionate ln1
crease over the receipts Of last year.
The Increase In production appears Ia
be n maximum Of about - per cent
and we can handle such an increase. 3
II the producers Of hogs should. as
they have In the past few weeks. pre-
maturely market hogs In Such increas,
Ing numbers over the above II Is en-
tirely beyond the ability of the pack
erS TO maintain these minimumS, and
therefore we must have the
ton Of the producer himself to main
tain these results. 1t is Il physical
imposSibility for the capacity OF the
packing houses TO handle a similar
over.nood of hogs and to find n market
for the output. The packers are anx.
lous to cooperate with the producers
in maintaining a sterilization OF price,
and to see that producers receive a fair
price for their products.
(Signed) THOS. Il. WILSON,
Chairman Packers Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt.
ed by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoln,-
cd a committee, comprising Mr.. Thomas
+. Wilson, chairman OF the Pack
ers' Committee; Mr.. Everett Brown,
president OF the Chicago Livestock EN.
change Major Roy Of the Food Adj
mInlstration, Mr.. Louis ID. Hall Of the
Bureau of Markets, TO undertake the
supervision Of the execution of the
plan in the various markets, Commits.
sion mel 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 cstab-
lished above is not fair, either to the
producer or the participating packers.
Mr.. Brown has undertaken on behalf
OF the commission men In the United
States that they will Loyalty support
the plan.
II is believed by the conference that
this new plan, based as II Is upon "A
positive minimum basis, will bring bet
ter results to the producer than aver
age prices for the month. II does not
limit top prices and should narrow
the margins necessary to country buy
ers In more variable markets, 1t is
believed that the plan should work out
close to S1S average.
Swine producers OF the country win
contribute to their wi interest by
not flooding the market, for II must he
evident that II an excessive over per-
centage OF hogs Is marketed In any
one month price sterilization and con-
troll cannot succeed, and II is certain
that producers themselves can contri-
butte material to the efforts OF the
conferences II they will do their mark
citing In as normal a way as possible.
The whole situation as existing at
present demands n frank and explicit
assurance from the conferees repre-
sented-namely, that every possible
effort will be made TO maintain a live
hog price commensurate with swine
production costs and reasonable sell
ing values In execution Of the declared
policy Of the Food Administration
: to use every agency In its control to
secure Justice TO the farmer.
: The stnbilization methods adopted
for November represent the best ef-
z Snrfa of the conference. CONQUERED In