The Adair County news., 1918-11-27

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 the
packers.
As the result Of long negotiations
between this body and the Packers
Committee, representing the As to 80
packers participating In foreign Or
ders, together with the Allied buyers,
all under the Craftsmanship of the
Food Administration, the following un-
dertakfng 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, it 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
daily minimum Of $3.50 per hundred
pounds on average of packers droves,
excluding throw-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 $16.50 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 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
be maximum of about Is per cent.
and we can handle such an 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 1t is en-
tirely beyond the ability of the pack
ers to maintain these minimums, 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 a similar
over-food of hogs and to find 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 fail
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 AID
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 in
carrying out the plan embodied in the
packers agreement. 1t must be evi
dent that offers by commission men tc
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 supper
the plan.
1t is believed by the conference tina
this new plan, based as it is upon {
positive minimum basis, will bring bet
ter results to the producer than aver
age prices for the month. 1t does no
limit top prices and should marrow
the margins necessary to country buy
, ers in more variable markets. 1t i
believed that the plan should work on
{ close to S18 average.
Swine producers of the country wi
: contribute to their own interest b
) not flooding the market, for it must b
evident that If an excessive over pei
, centage of hogs is marketed in an
one month price sterilization and cor
troll cannot succeed, and 1t is certai
! that producers themselves can contr
, butte materially to the efforts of tn
; conferences If they will do their mari
E citing in as normal way as possible.
. The whole situation as existing a
present demands a frank and explicl
, assurance from the conferees repre-
sented-namely, that every possibl
Z effort will be made to maintain liv
i hog price commensurate with swim
! production costs and reasonable sci
: ing values In execution of the declare
policy Of the Food Administratio
! to use every agency In its control
! secure justice to the farmer.
: The sterilization methods adopte
q for November represent the best e
: forts of the conference, concurred
. by the Food Administration and Il