Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-12-06

price Of live hogs 20 ~ 10 secure 40 fnr
a. q d possible fair returns 10 the
producer and the Insurance Of an ade-
Quate future supply.
These foreign orders are placed
upon the basis Of cost Of hogs to the
packerA
Az the result OF long negotiations
between this body and the Packers
Committee. representing the % TO 20
packers participating In foreign or
ders. together with the Allied buyers.
oil under the Chairmanship 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 co-ordinated purchases
Of pork products. covered In the at
tached. Il is agreed that the packers
participating In these orders will un-
dertake not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed mlnimums
for the month Of November, that In q
daily minimum Of e1T.D0 per hundred
pounds on average Of packers droves,
excluding throw-outA "Throw-outs"
to be defined a. pigs under 1870
pounds. stays. boars. thin Sows and
skipA Further that no hogs Of any
kind shall be bought except throw
outs. at less than S16.50 per hundred
poundG The average Of packers
droves to be construed as the average
Of the total sales In the market Of all
hogs for q given day. All the above
to be based on Chicago.
We agree that q committee shall DO
appointed BY the Food Administration
TO check the daily operations In the
various markets with q 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 q normal marketing OF
hogs based upon the proportionate In.
crease over the receipts Of last year.
The Increase In production appears to
be q maximum Of about rs per cent
and we can handle such an increase.
II the producers of hogs should. a.
they have IN the past few weeks, pre-
maturely market hogs In such increas-
ing numbers over the above II Is en-
tirely beyond the ability Of the pack.
ers to maintain these mlnlmums. and
therefore we must have the co-opera'
ton OF the producer himself to main
tain these results. II Is a physical
impossibillty for the capacity OF the
packing houses to handle a similar
over.flood Of hogs and TO find a market
for the output The packers are anx-
Ious TO cooperate with the producers
in maintaining q stnhillzation Of price
and to see that producers receive q
fair price for their products.
(SIgned) THOS. T.. WILSON.
Chairman Packers Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt
ed by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint
ed q committee. comprising Mr. Thorn
as E. Wilson. chairman Of the Pack
.ers' Committee; Mr.. Everett Brown.
president Of the Chicago Livestock Ex'
change; Major Roy OF the Food Ad'
ministratlon. Mr.. Louis n. Hall OF the
Bureau Of Markets, TO undertake the
superyision OF the execution OF the
nlan In the various markets. Commits
sion men ere asked to cooperate In
CARRYING out The plan embodied In the
packers agreement. II must he evil
dent that offers by commission men 10
sell hogs below the minimum estab-
lished above Is not fair, either TO the
producer ar the participating packers.
Mr.. Brown has undertaken on behalf
of the commission men in the United
States that they will loyalty support
the plnn.
II is believed by the conference that
this new plan. based us II Is upon a
posItive minimum bnsis, will hiring bet
ter results TO the producer lhnn aver
age prices for the month. II does not
limit top prices and should narrow
the margins necessary to country buy
era in more variable markets. II 10
believed that the plan should work out
close to &1S average.
Swine producers Of the country will
contribute to their own interest 0y
NOT flooding the market, for 1t must De
evident that II an excessive over per
centage of hogs II marketed In any
one month price sterilization and con-
troll cannot succeed, and II ID certain
that producers themselves can contri-
bute materially TO the efforts OF the
conferences II they will do their marx
citing In as normal way as possible.
The whole situation as existing al
nresent demands a frank and explicit
assurance from the cOnferees repre-
sented-namely, that every possible
effort will be made to maintain live
hog price commensurate with swine
production costs and reasonable SELL
inc values In execution Of the declar
ed policy of the Food Administration
to use every agency in Its control to
secure Justice to the farmer.
The stabillzation methods adopted
for November represent the best ef
forts of the conference, concurred In
by the Food Administration and the