Putnam patriot., 1918-11-15

aES. ana during thls time met With the ug firms participating in foreign orders ITS Of the Food Administration directing were as follows:
 producer and the insurance of an ade- qHate future supply
 These foreign orders are placed upon the basis of cost Of hogs 10 the packers
 As fi4o result of lon1 negotiations between ihis body and the Packers Gommiffs-e. representing the 45 10 zD packers participating in foreign or defs, together with the Allied buyers, all under inc Craftsmanship of the Food Administration. the following un- derlakiug has been given by the pack 1 CTS
 Tn view sf the undertakings on tine Iart of the Food Administration with regard to The eo-ordinated purchases Of pork Evoducts, covered in tb@ at- tI1ctied. il is agreed that the packers IrIrticipa ting In these orders wiit un- j dertake not 60 purchase hogs for tess i than tb- following agreed mininuns ! for the meHrfi of November, that Is daily minimum of s17J0 per hundred 1 pounds on average Of packers drores. excltdinR thros-outs "Throw-outs' ! 10 be defined as pigs under i30 i pounds, stags, boars, thin sows and 1 skips. Further that no hogs Of any kind shall be bought, except throw outs, at less than sl6J0 per hundred ! pounds. The average of packers droyes 10 be construed as the average of the total sales In the market of all ] hogs for given day All the above l to be based on Chicago
 1 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 demonstratL0a 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 proporil0Hate ln- crease over the receipts of last year. The increase in production appears to be q maximum of about 15 peF cent. and We can handle such m increase.
 Ii the producers of hogs shoHid. as they have in the past few weeks, pre- maturely market hogs in such increa.- ing numbers over the above it Is en- tjnely beyond the ability of the pack CTS to maintain these mnImums and therefore We must have the co-opera- fioB 1f tue producer himself to main tain tEese results. II is a physical l mpossibiits for the capacity of the packing houses to handle similar over flood Of h0gs and to find market for tho output. The packers are anx- lous to cooperate with the producers | In maintaining A stsbilization of price and to see that producers receive i fair price for their products.
 (Sgned) THOS. E. WILSON.
 Chairman Packers Committee.
 The plun embodied above was adopt ed by the conference.
 The Food Administrator has appoint, ed committee, comprising Mir. Thom- as F. Wilson, chairman of the Pack CTS Committee Mir Everett Brown, president of the Chicago Livestock EX- change Major Roy of the Food Ad- ministratlon, Mir Louis p Hall of the l Bureau of Markets, to undertake the sapers sion of the execution of the | plan ip the various markets. Gommis- sion men are asked to cooperate in eafr3tng out the plan embedded in the pa. kcrs agreement II must be evi- dent that offers by commission men to sell hogs below the minimum estah- lished above Is not fair, either 10 tbe psoducer or the participating packers. Str Brown hus under ken on behalf e he commission ntu III the United
 es that they will ioyally support l.., alan.
 l. S believed by tk conference that this new plan, baStd IS it Is upon a positive minimum basis, will bring bet fer results to the producer than aver age prices for the month. II does not limit top prices and should narrow the margins necessary to country buy CTS in more variable markets. Ii is believed that the plan should work out close to SIS average.
 Swine producers of the country will contribute to their own Interest by not flooding the market, for it must be evident that if an excessive over per eentage of hogs Is marketed in any one month price qualification and con trol cannot succeed, and it is certain that producers themselves can contri- hute materially to the efforts of the conferences II they will do their mark eting in as normal way as possible.
 The whole situation as existing at present demands 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 l ing values in execution of The declar- l ed policy of the Food Administration to use every agency in itS costrol To secure justice to the farmer
 The stabiliaation methods adopted for November represent the bcSl ef forts of the conference. coicurred in by the Food Administration and the
 Mrs Henry Martell of Trenton, N F--- T