The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-12-06

as follows:
producer N the insurance of an ade-
Quate future supply.
These foreign orders are placed
upon the basis OF cost of hogs 10 the
packers.
As the result of long negotiations
be- this body and the Packers
Committee, representing the 10 10 %
packers participating IL foreign or
ders. together with the Allied buyers.
ali under the Craftsmanship of the
ood Administration. the followin I'm
dertaking has been given by the pack
era:
In view OF the undertakings on the
part Of n Food Administration with
regard 10 the co-Ordinated purchases
Of pork products, covered In the at
tached, II Is agreed that the packers
participating In these orders will un-
dertake not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed minimumS
for the month of November. that is a
daily minimum OF $3.50 per hundred
pounds ON average of packers droves.
excluding thrOw-Outs. ''Throw-outs'
to be defined as pigs under l3O
pounds, stays. boars, thin sows and
skips Further, that no hogs Of any
kind shall be bought, except throw
outs, at less than $1e.50 per hundred
pounds. The average of packers
droves to be construed as the average
OF the total sales i'm the market of all
hogs for a given day. All the above
to he based on Chicago.
We agree hat n 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 Il normal marketing OF
hogs based upo the proportionate in
crease over the receipts of last year.
The Increase I'm production appears to
be a maximum Of about l. per cent.
and we can handle such an Increase.
II the producers OF hogs should. as
they have In the past few weeks. pre-
matureiy market hogs in such increas-
ing numbers over the above il is en-
tirely beyond the ability of the pack
a W These UlflllttIlS.Et
therefore We must have the
ton OF the producer himself to main
tain these results. Ii is a physical
lmpOssibility for the capacity Of the
packing houses TO handle a similar
over-nood Of hogs and TO find a market
for the output. The packers are anx-
i0us to cooperate with the producers
In maintaining n stabilization of price
and TO see that producers receive a fair
price for their products.
(Signed) TnOS. f. WILSON,
Chairman Packers Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt
cd by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint
a committee, comprising Mr.. Thomas
y. Wilson, chairman of the Pack
ers' Committee; Mr.. Everett Brown,
of the Chicago Livestock Ex-
change; Major Roy of the Food AID
ministration. Mr.. Louis D.. Hall OF the
OF Markets, to undertake the
supervision of the execution OF the
plan in the various markets. Commits
sion men are asked to cooperate in
carrying out the plan embodied in the
packers agreement. II mus be evil
ent hat offers by commission men to
sell hogs below the minimum eStab-
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
that they will Loyalty support
the plan.
1t is believed by the conference that
this new plan, based ms II is upon a
minimum basis, will bring bet
ter results to the producer than aver
age prices for the month. II does not
limit top prices and should narrow
margins necessary TO country buy
ers I'm more variable markets. 1t is
believed that the plan should work. out
to $1S average.
Swine producers of the country will
to their own interest by
flooding the market, for 1t must be
hat II an excessive over per-
OF hogs Is marketed In any
one month price sterilization and con-
troll cannot succeed, and 1t is certain
that producers themselves can contri-
butte materially to the efforts of the
conferences II they will do their mark
citing in as normal a way as possible.
The whole situation as existing at
demands a frank and explicit
from the conferees repre-
,ented-Damely, hat every possible
will be made to maintain a live
hog price commensurate with swine
costs and reasonable sell
nR values In execution IF the declared
policy OF the Food Administration
use every ageney in Its control to
,ecure Justice to the farmer
The stabilixation methods adopted
FOR November represent the best eff
forts 81 The conference. c%oncurred IN
the Food Administration ant the