Arizona republican., 1918-11-10
PLAN TO STABILIZE
 PRICE OF HOGS IS
 N0W AGREED UPON

What effect will peace have on the price Of hogs?
 How can Salt River valley producers assist the government in stabiiizing prices?
 Just what has been accomplished and what is hoped to be accomplished in the matter cf stabilized prices uartment of agriculture and the United flrmen the cooperation of the de- states food administration
 What will the packers pay for hogs Guring the month of November?
 These questions. all of vital interest tl the hog producers of this section lud affecting the prosperity of the in dustrv i'm Arizona. are answered in a report OF recent conference held in Washington. The report has just been made public by the federal lodd admin strator for Arizona. q is as follows;
 "The conference between the live stock subcommittee of the agricultu- r9f advisory beard. including special members representing the swine indus fry and of the food administration, has after consideration Of the present situ ation of the pork and pig market reached the following conclusions:
 The entire marketing situation has 
 conference as to necessitate an entire alteration in the plans of price stabili- z5tion. The current peace talk has alarmed tho holders Of corn, and there has been u price decline of from 25 cents t1 90 cents ler bushel. The fact that the accumulauCus of low-priced corn in the Argentine and South Africa would. upon the advent of peace and liberated shipping become available to the European market has created a great deal of apprehension on the part of corn holders. This decline has -prcad fear among swine growers that a similar reduction in the prices Of hogs would naturally follow. Mere ovcr inc lower range of corn prices would, r incorporated in 13-to-1 ra- tio. obviously result in continuously falling price for live hCgs. In view of these changed conditions many swine producers anticipated lower prices and as % result. rushed their hogs to market in large numbers, and this ovcr- shipment has added to and aegra- vated the decline.
 Hog Supply Increases 8 Per Cent
 "The information Of the department pf agriculture indicates that the supply bC hu"s has increased about per cent. Mnlle the llEOeSt uncilcldl estimate doe not exceed l5 per cent. Increased production over last year On the other hand. the arrival of hogs during the last three weeks in the seven great markets has been 27 per cent more than last year during the correspond rg period demonstrating the unusual y heavy marketing cf the available supply. Tn the face of the excessive receipts some packers have not main- tained the price agreed last month. On 'tha other hand, many of the packers have paid over the price offered to them in an endeavor to maintain the greed price. The result in any event has been a failure 10 maintain the Oc- ober price basis. determined upon by l1e September conference and under ken by the packers. Another factor contributing tc the. break in prices during the month has been the influ- r11a epidemic; it has sharply cur tailed consumption of pork products tnd temporarily decreased the labol
 Ar of the packers about 25 per cent
 The exports of l30.000,0O0 pounds O