French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-11-28

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
e this body and the Packers
Committee, representing the 45 to so
pacEcrs 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 undertakings on the
part Of the Food Administration with
regard to the c~O-ordinated purchases
OF pork products, covered in the at
tached, it is agreed that the packers
participating in these orders will I'M
dertake not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed mtnimums
for the month of November, that is a.
daily minimlm Of $3.50 per hundred.
pounds on average Of packers droves,
excluding tlarOw-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 $1e.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 a given day. An the abpve
to be based on Chicago. -
a.
We agree that a committee shaIi be
appointed by the Food ADMINISTRATOR
to check the daily operations iii the
various markets with IA view re super
vision and demonstration of the carry.
ing out of the above. ..:,s -.
The ability Of the packers to garry
out this arrangement will depend Of
there being a normal marketing of
hogs based upon the proportionate in
crease eyer. HtRee RECEIPTS Of last year:
The increase In production appears to
be a maximum of about Is per cent.
and we car handle such an increase.
II the producers q. Fogs shouTS,, as
they have In the past few weeks, pre-
maturely market hogs in such increas-
ing numbers over, the above st is en-
tirely beyond the ability Of the pack
ers to maintain these minimumS, and
therefore we must have the. co-opera-
'tion of the producer himself to- main
tain these results. It is a physical
impossibility for the capacity of the
packing houses to handle a similar
Oyer-feod of hogs and ito find a market
for the output. The" packers are anx-
ious to cooperate with the producers
in maintaining q s:abiIizatioh OF price
and to see that producers receive a fair
price for their products. -N~A ~
(Signed) THOS. E. WILSON,
Chairman Packers Committee
The plan embodied above was adopt
ed by the conference.
The Food Adminis: :rat6r has appoint:
ed'a committee, comprising Mr.. Thomas
q" Wilson,. chairman, Of the Pack
ers' Committee; Mr.. Everett Brown
president of the Chicago livestock EHe
changer Major. Roy Of the Food. Adj
ministration, Mr.. Louis D.. Hall OF the
Bureau Of Markets, TO undertake the
supervision of the execution of the
plan in the various markets. Commits
sion men are asked TO cooperate i'll
carrying out the plan embodied in the
packers agreement. 1t, must be evil
dent that 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
States that they will Loyalty support
the plan.
It is believed by the conference that
this new plan, based as it is upon a
positive minimum basis, will bring bet
ter 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 It is
believed that the plan should work out
close to $1S average.
Swine producers Of the country will
contribute to their own interest by
not flooding the market, for 1t 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 a way as possible.
The whole situation as existing at
present demands q frank and explicit
assurance from the conferees repre-
sented-namely, that every possible
effort will be made to maintain a live
hog price commensurate with swine
production costs. and reasonable sell
ing values in execution of the declared
policy Of the Food Administration
to use every agency in it's control t.
| secure justice to the farmer.
: The sterilization methods adopted
: for November represent the best eff
r forts of the conference, concurred il
by the Food Administration and tht