The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-16

were as 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 45 to 50 packers participating in foreign or ders, together with the Allied buyers, all under the Chairmanship of the Food Administration, the following un- dertaking has been given by the pack CTS:
 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 daily minimum of $1750 per hundred pounds on average of packers droves, excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs" to be defined as pigs under 13O pounds, stags, boars, thin sows and skips. Further that no hogs of any kind shall be bought, except throw outs, at Jess than S1650 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 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 a normal marketing of hogs based upon the proportionate in- crease over the receipts of last year. The increase in production appears to be a maximum of about 15 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 CTS to maintain these minimums, and | therefore we must have the co-opera- ton of the producer himself to main tain these results. It is a physical impossibility for the capacity of the packing houses to handle a similar over-food of hogs and to find market for the output. The packers are anx- ious to cooperate with the producers in maintaining a stabilization 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 MT. Thom as E. Wilson, chairman of the Pack ers' Committee; MT. Everett Brown president of the Chicago Livestock Ex change; Major Roy of the Food Ad minIstration, Mir. Louis D. Hall of the Bureau of Markets, to undertake the supervision of the execution of the plan in the various markets. Commis sion men are asked to cooperate 1T carrying out the plan embodied in thu packers agreement. It must be evi dent that offers by commission men tC sell hogs below the minimum estab lfshed above is not fair, either to thu producer or the participating packers
 Mir. Brown has undertaken on behal-
 of the commission men in the United
 States that they will Loyalty suppor the plan.
 It Is believed by the conference tha 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. It does no limit top prices and should marrow
 the margins necessary to country buy ; CTS in more variable markets. It i' believed that the plan should work ou 2 close to SIS average.
 Swine producers of the country vii contribute to their own interest b. . not flooding the market, for it must b. , evident that if an excessive over per , centage of hogs is marketed in an, one month price stabilization and con trol cannot succeed, and 1t is certail that producers themselves can contri bute materially to the efforts of tn , conferences if they will do their mark . eting in as normal way as possible. g The whole situation as existing a : present demands a frank and explIci ! assurance from the conferees repre- : sented-namely, that every posslbI f effort will be made to maintain a liv h hog price commensurate with swin n production costs and reasonable sell l. ing values in execution of the declal l. ed policy of the Food Administratio l. to use every agency in its control | d secure justice to the farmer. ,- The stabilization methods adopte e for November represent the best et r forts of the conference, concurred f e by the Food Administration and tn