Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-23

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 so
packers participating in foreign or
ders, together with the Allied buyers
all under the Craftsmanship of the
Food Administration, the following I'M
dertaking has been given by the pack
ers:
In view of the undertakes on the
part OF the Food Administration with
regard to the c0-ordinated purchases
of pork products, covered in the at
tached, 1t is agreed that the packers
participating in these orders will I'M
dertake not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed minmums
for the month of November, that is a
daily minimum of $3.50 per hundred
pounds on average of packers droves,
excluding thr6w-outs. "Throw-outs"
TO be defined as pigs under 100
pounds, stays, boars, thin sows and
skips. Further that no hogs of any
kind shall be bought, except throw
outs, at less 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
hnfrS a eriy do oh
to be based on Chicago.
We agree that 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 proportionate in
crease over the receipts of last year.
The increase in production appears to
be a maximum of about Is 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 ii 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. Ii is a physical
impossibility for the capacity of the
packing houses TO handle a similar
over-flood of hogs and to find market
for the output The packers are anx-
ious to cooperate with the producers
in maintaining sterilization of price
and to see that producers receive a
fair price for their products.
(Signed) THOS. L. WILSON,
Chairman Packers Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt
ed by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint
cd committee, comprising Mr.. Thorn
as +. Wilson, chairman of the Pack
ers' Committee; Mr.. Everett Brown,
president of the Chicago Livestock Elk
change Major Roy of the Food Adj
ministration, Mr.. Louis d. Halt of the
Bureau of Markets, to undertake :he
supervision of the execution of the
plan in the various markets. Commits
sion men are asked to cooperate in
carving out the plan embodied in the
packers agreement. 1t must be evil
dent that Offers by commission men 10
sell hogs below the minimum estah-
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 it is upon a
positive minimum basis, will bring bet
FER results to the producer than aver
age prices for the month. 1t does not
limit top prices and should narrow
the margins necessary to country buy
ers in more variable markets. 1t ia
believed that the plan should work out
close to SIS average.
Swine producers of the country viii
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 sterilization 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
citing in as normal way as possible.
The whole situation as existing al
nresent demands a frank and explicit
assurance from the conferees repre-
sented-namely, that every possible
effort will be made to maintain live
hog price commensurate with swine
production costs and reasonable sell
inc values in execution of the declar
] cd Motley of the Food Administration
TO use every agency in its control tc
secure Justice to the farmer.
The sterilization methods adopted
for Nntember represent the best eff
forts Of the conference, concurred IN
Inv the Food Administration and the