The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-11-28

, we're as follows:
producer and the insurance of an ade
| quate future supply.
. These foreign orders are place,
upon the basis of cost of hogs TO III,
packers.
AS the result of long negotiation,
between this body and the Packers
committee, representing the 45 to Il
packers participating in foreign or
derS, together with the Allied buyers
all under the Charmanship of IN,
; food Administration, the following un
dertaklng 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 viii un.
dertake not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed minimums
Tor the month of November, that is a
eaiiy minimum of $3.50 per hundred
pounds on average of packers droyes,
excluding throw-Outs. "rhrow-outs"
TO be defined as pigs under 13O
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 given day. All the above
to be based on Chicago
We agree that a committee shall be
appointed by the Food Administration
to check the daily operations in the
various markets with a 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 normal marketing of
hogs based upon the proportiOnate in
crease over the receipts of last year.
The increase in production appears to
be maximum of about 10 per cent.
and we can handle such an increase.
If 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 it is en-
tirely beyond the ability of the pack
ers to maintain these minimums, and
therefore we must have the co-opera-
ton of the producer himself to main-
tain these results. 1t Is physical
impossibility for the capacity of the
packing houses to handle similar
iover-hOod of hogs and to find a market
for the output The packers are anx.
ious to cooperate with the producers
in maintaining stabiization of price
and to see that producers receive a
fair price for their products.
(Signed) THOS. E. WILSON,
| Chairman Packers Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt
ed by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint
ed a committee, comprising Mr.. Thom-
as L. Wilson, chairman of the Pack
ers' Committee Mr.. Everett Brown,
president of the Chicago Livestock Ex-
change; Major Roy of the Food Ad-
ministration, Mr.. Louis d. Hall of the
/ Bureau of Markets. to undertake the
supervision Of the execution of the
plan in the various markets. Commits
sion men are asked to cooperate in
carrying out the plan embodied in the
! packers agreement. II must be ey-
dent that offers by commission men 10
! sell hogs below the minimum estab-
| 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.
1t is believed by the conference that
this new plan, based as it is upon
positive minimum basis, will bring bet
ter results to the producer than aver
age prices for the month. 1t does not
limit top prices and should narrow
/ tne margins necessary to country buy
ers in more variable markets. 1t Is
believed that the l.iAn should work out
close to s1S average.
Swine producers of the country will
contribute to their own interest by
not flooding the market, for it must be
| evident that if an excessive over per-
centage of hogs is marketed in any
one month price stablizatiOn and con-
troll cannot succeed, and it is certain
that producers themselves can contri-
butte materially to the efforts of the
conferences If they will do their mark
eting in as normal way as possible
The whole situation as existing at
present demands frank and explicit
assurance from the conferees repre-
sented-namely, that every possible
| effort will be made 10 maintain a live
hog price commensurate with swine
production costs and reasonable sell
ling values in execution Of the declar-
ed policy of the Food Administration
to use every agency in its control to
secure justice to the farmer.
The stabilzatlon methods adopted
for November represent the best ef-
forts Of the conference, concurred In