The Nevada County picayune., 1918-12-05

l 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 5O packers participating in foreign or ders, together with the Allied buyers. all under the GhairIuauship of the Food Administration. the following un- dertakiHg has been given by the pack CTS
 In view of the undertakings on the part of the Food Administration with regard to the co-ordlnated purchases of pork products, covered in the at faehed, il k a.recd that the packers participating in these orders will un- dertake HGf to purchase hogs for less than the following agreed minmumS fer the month of November, that is 4 daily minimum of Sl750 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 less than $16J0 per hundred pounds.' The average of packers droves to be construed as the average of the total sales ii the market of ail hogs for q given day All the above to be based on CHeago
 We agree that committee shall he 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 iu- 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 m 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 1t 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 imposslbility 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 a stabillzation of price and to see that producers receive fair price for their products.
 (Slgned) THOS l.. WILSON.
 Chairman Packers Committee.
 The plan embod ed above was adopt ed by the conference
 The Food AdminjStrator has appoint ed committee, comprising Mir Thom- as F.. Wilson. cha .rman Of the Pack CTS Committee Mr Everett Brown, president of the Chicago Livestock EX change, Major Roy of the Food Ad- ministraton, Mr Louis D Hall of the Bureau of Marke,s, to undertake the supervision of Che execution of the plan in the various markets. COmnhS sion men are asked to cooperate in carrying out the plan embodied in the packers agreement II must be eYi- dent that offers by commission men fo sell hogs below The minimum estab- lshed above k hot fair, either to the producer or the participating packers, Mir. Brown has undertaken on behalf If the commission men in the Cuilcd States that they will loyalty support The plan
 Iti k believed by the conference that luis new plan, based as il is upon q positive minimum basis, will bring bet Tor results 10 the producer than aver age prices for the month. IL does not limit top prices and should narrow The margins necessary to country buy CTS in more variable markets. It is believed that the plan should work out close to SIS average.
 Swine producers of the country will contribute to their own interest by not flooding the market, for 1t must he evident that if an excessive over per eeatage of hogs is marketed in any one month price stabilization and con trol cannot succeed. and It is certain that producers themselves can c0utri- bute 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 d frank and explicit assurance from the conferees repre- sented-namely. that every possible effort will be made 10 maintain n live hog price commensurate with swine production costs and reasonable sell ing values in execution of the declar- ed policy of the Food Administration }o use every agency In It's control 10 secure Justice to the farmer.
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