The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-11-21

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RS Of the Food Administration directing
were as follows:
producer and the Insurance Of an ade.
Quate future supply,
These foreign orders are PLACED
upon the basis Of cost Of hogs to thu
packers.
| As the result of long negotiation.
BET ween this body and-the Packers
COMMITTEE. representing the As to &
packers participating in foreign or
ders, together with the Allied buyers
all under the Chairmanship of the
Food Administration, the following un
dertaking has been given by the pack
erS:
In view Of the undertakings on the
part OF the Food Administration with
regard to the co-ordinated purchases
OF pork products, covered In the at
tached, 1t Is agreed that the packers
participating in these orders will un.
dertake not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed mlnlmums
for the month Of November, that Is q
daily mtDimum of $3.50 per hundred
pounds on average Of packers droves
excluding throw-onts. "Throw-outs''
to he defined as pigs under 100
pounds, stays, bears, thin sows and
sktps. 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 a given day. All the above
to be based on Chicago.
We agree that a committee shall be
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 normal marketing of
hogs based upon the proportionate in
crease over the receipts of last year.
The increase In production appears to
be a maximum Of about Is per cent.
land we can handle such IN increase.
II 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 ut is en-
tirely beyond the ability of the pack
ers to maintain these <lninimums, and
therefore we must have the co-opera-
ton of the producer himself to main
tain these results. 1t Is a physical
impossibility for the capacity of the
packing houses to handle similar
over-flood Of hogs and to find a market
for the output. The packers are anx.
lous to cooperate with the producers
in maintaining sterilization Of price
and to see that producers receive fair
price for their products.
(Signed) THOS. e. WILSON,
Chairman Packers Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt.
ed by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint
ed committee, comprising Mr.. Thomas
E. Wilson, chairman Of the Pack
ers' Committee; Mr.. Everett Brown,
president Of the Chicago Livestock Elk
change; Major Roy of the Food Ad-
Mr.. Louis D. Hall of the
Bureau Of Markets. to undertake the
of the execution Of the
plan In the various markets Commits :.
sion men are asked to cooperate In
out the plan embodied In the
packers agreement, It 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
he plan.
It II believed by the conference that
this new plan. based AZ 1t Is upon a
positive minimum basis will bring bet.
Ter results to tho producer than aven-
aee prices for the month. It does not
limit top prices and should narrow
!h1 margins necessary to country buy
ers In more variable (marketA It 10
believed that the plan 5hould work out
Hose to &1S average.
, swine producers Of the country win
contribute 10 their own Interest BY
rot flooding the market, for II must be
svtdent that II AN excessive over per.
:entage Of hogs II marketed In any
me month price sterilization and con-
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