Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22
STEADIER HOG MARKETS PLANNED
Hog Producers and Packers Confer With Repre-
sentatives Of the Food Administration and
Agricultural Department and Adopt
New Plan of Regulation.

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 As to 30
pac6ers participating in foreign Or
ders, together with the Allied buyers,
al! under the Craftsmanship of the
ROOD Administration, the following I'M
uertaking has been given by the pack
ers:
In view of the undertakings on the
part OF the Food Administration with
legard to the co-Ordnated purchases
OF pork products, covered in the at
iached, 1t Is agreed that the packers
participating In these orders will I'm
dertake not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed minimumS
for the month of November, that is n
daily minimum of $3.50 per hundred
pounds on average of packers drovcs,
excluding throw-outs. "Throw-ou;s"
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 $3.50 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 given day. All the above
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 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
he maximum of about 10 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 1t is en-
tirely beyond the ability of the pack
crs to maintain these minimumS, and
therefore we must have the cO-Opera-
tion of the producer himself to main
tain these results. 1t is a physical
lmpOssibility for the capacity of the
packing houses to handle a similar
over-hood of hogs and to find a market
for the output. The packers are anx;
iOus to cooperate with the producers
= in maintaining a sterilization OF price
! and to see that producers receive fair
: price for their products.
(Signed) THOS. r. WILSON.
Chairman Packers Committee.
= The plan embodied above was adopt
ed by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint.
cd committee, comprising Mr.. Thomas
f. Wilson, chairman of the Pack
? ers' Committee; Mr.. Everett Brown,
president of the Chicago Livestock EX-
change; Major Roy of the Food Ad
ministration. Mr.. Louis d. Hall of the
a Bureau of Markets, to undertake the
: supervision of the execution of the
: plan in the various markets. Commits
e sion men are asked to cooperate In
carrying out the plan embodied In the
: packers agreement. 1t must be evi
i dent that offers by commission men tC
Il sell hogs below the minimum eStab
i liShed above Is not fair, either to the
s producer or the participating packers
8 Mr.. Brown has undertaken on behalt
Y of the commission men in the United
l. States that they will loyalty supper
II the plan.
d It is believed by the conference tina
e this new plan, based as 1t is upon ;
re positive minimum basis, will bring bet
d ter results to the producer than aver
1t age prices for the month. 1t does no
D. limit top prices and should marrow
a the margins necessary to country buy
Is ers in more variable markets. 1t
m believed that the plap should work GU
Of close to $1S average.
Swine producers OF the country wi
IS contribute to their own interest b
ce not flooding the market, for 1t must b
70 evident that II an excessive over pei
to centage of hogs Is marketed In an
s. one month price sterilization and col
e. troll cannot succeed, and It Is certai
q that producers themselves can contr
a butte materially to the efforts of tn
he conferences IL they will do their mari
ne citing in as normal way as possible.
ne The whole situation as existing a
IL present demands frank and explic
tn assurance from the. conferees repr'
a. sented-numely, that every posslbl
of effort will be made TO maintain liy
tn hog price commensurate with swim
In production costs and reasonable sci
n ing values in execution of the declare
d. policy[ of the Food Administrative
n TO use every agency In Its control
1910 a. tha farn,ar