The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-12-20

OTI0M
Of the Food Administrator diree,,..
were a. follows:
producer and the Insurance Of m
quate future supply.
lnese foreign orders are n,oo
upon the basis Of cost Of hogs to ~
packers. 49,
A the result Of long negotla,,o,.
between this body and the racIs.s
committee. representing the a. n \;
PACKERS participating In foreign
ders' together with the Allied huvars
all under the Chairmansbip ~ ~
Food Administration, the folIow,n. -
d~ertnklnR has heen given by the pa.t'
ers ''~,
In view Of the undertakings on m.
part OF the Food Administration w,tr
regard to the cO-ordinated nurcbnaas
OF pork products. covered in the ".
taf'ieh. II is agreed that the nockors
Miilicilmiine in these orders will nm.
dertake not to purchase hogs for les.
than the following agreed mInimnn,s
FOR ~" month of November. tbo, is
On q mini,hum of $3.50 per hundred
Pc dis IN average Of packers droves
excluding fhrow-Outs. "Throw.outst
to be defined as pigs under ,M
pounds sings. hOars, thin sows ana
skipS fHl her that no hogs of anv
kind shall he bought, except throw.
outs. at less than $3.50 per hundred
pounds. The average of packer
groves to be n irued as the average
or tn total sales IN the market % AN
hogs for-n given day. All the above
to hp based ON thucnwo
we agree that II committee shall he
appointed by the Food Administrator
to check the daily operations in The
various markets with IA view to super-
vision and denionsi ration of the carry
Ing OUT of the above
The ability of he packers to carry
out this n~rrans"r'ent will depend on
there h"iii. u normal marketing az
hogs based upon the proportionate in.
crease over the receipts Of last yenr.
The increase in production appears to
be II maximum of about 10 per cent.
and we GIN handle such an increase.
II tn" producers of hogs should. ~
they have In the past few weeks, pre-
maturely market hogs In such i~ncreas-
Ing numbers over the above Il is en-
tirely beyond the ability Of The pack.
ers to maintain these minimuns, and
therefore we must have the co-opera-
ton of the producer himself to main
tain these results. II is II physical
impossibility for the capacity of tbs
packing houses TO handle a similar
over-food of hogs and to find a market
for the output. The packers are INK
ious 10 cooperate with The producers
In maintaining a qualification of price
and to sec that producers receive q
price for their products.
(Signcd) THOS. T.. WILSON,
Chairman Packers Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt
ell by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint
ed a committee, comprising Mr.. Thorn
as Z. Wilson, chairman of the Pack
Committees; Mr.. Everett Brown,
president Of the Chicago Livestock Ex.
Major Roy of the Food Ad-
ministration, Mr.. Louis d. Hall of ths
Bureau Of Markets, to undertake the
Of the execution of the
plan In the various markets. Commits.
sion men nre asked to cooperate In
carrying out the plan embodied In ths
agreement 1t must be evil
dent that offers by commission men to
sell hogs below the minimum estab-
|ished above lie not fair. either to the.
producer or the participating packers:
Mr.. Brown has undertaken on behalf
II the commission men In the United
that they will loyalty support
he plan.
It 10 believed BY the conference that
his new plan, based rs IL is upon O
minimum basis, will bring bet
err results to the producer than aver
lge prices for the month. 1t does not
init top prices and should narrow,
he margins necessary to country buy
,rs in more variable markets. 1t is
believed that the plan should work out
lose to SIS average.
Swine producers of the country will
to their own interest BY.
lot flooding the market, for 1t must be
that II an excessive yer per-
of hogs ID marketed in any
me month price sterilization and coz
.rUa cannot succeed, and II is certain
hat producers themselves al cOntri-
materially to the efforts of tbs
conferences II they will do their mark
.ting in MS normal a way az possible.
The whole situation as existing ct
demands a frank and explicit
from the conferees repre-
'ented-namely, that every possible
will be made to maintain a live
lOg price compassionate with swine
costs and reasonable sell
ng values In execution of the declar
ID policy of the Food Administrator