Cleveland County herald., 1918-11-28
STEADIER HOG nIIlAAnIxETs AHMED k 3 --a-------- Hog Producers and Packers Confer With Repre-
 sentatiyes of the Food Administration and .s Agricultural Department and Adopt . New Plan of Regulation.
New Plan of Regulation.

le Eood Administration since it's founda. tAe agricultural industry on occasions the industry, oI October 24 there was f the Live Stock Subcommittee of the special members representing the swine le hog market.
 avs, and during this time met with the ns firms participating in foreign orders IFS of the Food Administration directing were as follows:
 producer and the insurance os sa s;se- quate future supply.
 These foreign orders are p1ace1j upon the basis of cost of hogs te the packers.
 As the result of long negotiations between this body and the Packers Committee, representing the 10 to 50 packers participating In foreign or defs, together with the Allied buyers. ali under the Craftsmanship of the Food Administration, the following un- dertaking has been given by the r,ack CTS:
 Tn view of the undertakings on the part of the Food Administration with regard to the co-ordinated purchsses 9t pork products. covered iu the at- tachcd, It is agreed tiat l'ae packers participating in those orders will un- dertake not to purchase hogs for less than the following agreed minimuns for the month of November, that is daily minimum of $1T.;O per hundred pounds on average of packers drovcS, excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs" 10 be defined as pigs under l:,O pounds, stags, boars, thin sows and skins. Further that no hogs of any kind shall be bought, except throw outs. at less than $l650 per hundred pounds. The average of packers droyes 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 Shail be appointed by the Food Administration to check the daily operations in the various markets with view to super- vision and deIhonStration of the carry. ing out of the.s,bove
 The ability of the hackers to carry oue this arrangement will depend on there being a normal marketing of hogs based upon the proportionate tn- crease over the receipts of last year. The i:nlclrease in prodiicfion appears to be q maximum of about i5 per cent. and We can handle such an increase.
 If the producers of hogs should, as they have ill the past few weeks pre- matufeiy market hogs in such inereas- ing numbers over the above if Is en- tireiy beyond the ability of, the pack CTS 10 maintain these minimums, and therefore we must have inc co-opera. ti0n of the producer himself to maln, tain these results. It Is physical impossibility for the capacity Of the packing houses to handle similar overfiood of hogs and to find market for the output The packers are anx, ioas to cooperate with the producers in maintaining a stabllizatlon of price and to see that producers receive fair price for their products.
 (Signcd) THOS. E. WILSON. Chairman Packers Gommittee.
 The plan embodied above was adopt. ed by the conference.
 The Food Administrator has appoint cd 2 committee, comprising Mr Tbom- as F. Wilson, cbairman of the Pack ers' Committee; Mr. Everett Brown, ppesi,ient of the Chicago Livestock E&- change; Major Roy of the Food Ad- ministration, Mir. Louis D. Hall of the Bureau of Markets, to undertake the supervision of the execution of the plan In the various markets. CommiS- sion men arc asked to cooperate in carrying out the plan c.,ibns|ietl in the : packers agreement. II must be eyi- dent that offers by commission men 10 sel! hogs below the minimum estab- lishcd above Is not fair, either to the producer or the participating packers. Mir. Brown has undertakep op behalf ' of the commission men in the United : States that they Will loyally sHpRoff the plan. II Is believed by the conference that this new plan, based as 1t Is upon a positive minimum basis, will bring bet. l ter results to the producer than aver t age prices for the month. 1t does not sIimit top prices and should narrow 3 the margins necessary to country buy s CTS ip more variable markets. It ls n believed that the plan should work ou f close to SIS average.
 Swine producers of the country will s contribute to their own interest b. c not flooding the market, for 1t must b' s evident that if an excessive over per o centage of hogs is marketed in an! 5. one month price stabiliZation and con > !rol cannot succeed, and 1t is certain a that producers themselves can contri