The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-11-14

quate future supply.
These foreign orders are placed
upon the basis of cost of hogs to the
packers.
AS the result of long negotiations
be- this body and the Packers
Committee, representing the 45 to sc
packers participating in foreign or
ders, together with the Allied buyers.
al! under the Craftsmanship 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 he co-ordinated purchases
OF pork products, covered in the at
1ached, it is agreed that the packers
participating in these orders will un-
dertake % to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed minimums
for the month of November, that is q
daily minimum of $3.50 per hundred
pounds on average of packers droves,
excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs'
to be defined is pigs under 13O
pounds, stays, boars, thin sows and
skips, 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 q 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 a maximum of aboutS15 per cent.
and we can handle such an increase.
If the producers of hogs should, as
they have in the past few weeks, pre-.
maturely market hogs in such increaS-
ing numbers Yer the above it is en-
tirely beyond the ability. of the pack
u " I3dlltdiJ IHeSe Hl1ulIuuIDS, ana
therefore we must have the
ton of the producer himself to main
tain these results. 1t is a physical
imposslbility for the capacity Of the
packing houses to handle q similar
oyer-fiood of hogs and to find a 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 a fair
price for their products.
{Signed) THOS. e. WILSON,
Chairman Fuckers Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt
ed by the conference.
The Food Administrators has appoint.
ed a 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-
msnisiration. Mr.. Louis d. Hall of the
Bureau of Markets. to undertake the
supervision Of the execution of tie
plan in he various markets. Commits
sion men are asked to cooperate I'm
carrying out The plan embodied in the
packers agreement. IT must be evil
dent that offers by commission men 10
sell hogs below the minimum estab-
iished above is not fair, either TO tho
producer OF tie participating packers.
Mr.. Brown fns undertaken on behalf
Of The commission men In the United
States that they will loyalty support
the plan.
II Is believed by the conference that
this new plan, based as II is upon a
positive minimum basis, VIII bring bet.
Ter results to the producer Han aver
age prices for the Mouth. II does moi
limit top prices and should narrow
the margins necessary 10 country buy,
ers In more variable markets. III ii
believed that the plan should work OUT
close TO $I8 average.
Swine producers OF The country DJlj
contribute 10 their 1svTa interest by
not flooding the market. for ii must s30
evident that IL an excessive osef per.
ceDiage of hogs Is marketed III aB,
one month price stabfIization and con
troll cannot succeed, md II Isl ceYta.t
that producers themselves can e1s,fia
butte materially ~ she efforts OF flbe
conferences IS they VIII do tbetr MART.
citing u ~ normal q way as possible.
The whole siftiatf0p as existing III
present demands 70 frank and esaJfsfl
assurance from The e~onferees repre-
senttdnalaets, tf,af every possible
effort VIII be made ~ sGainfain ii iiss
hog price commensurate with sspitss
production costs Hnd reasonable sA3l
Ing values III execution III lpe deelafee
policy of the Fos,d Adsntnisffasias
10 use every agency Il, lfs control Il
secure JagsI9e d He Turner.
The gsHldltzattpf1 methods adofaaev
for NpscsIi;,ef r~asayesept the best ri
forts Sf lI.s eottgeyOEes00nsaitYads hi
NV tLo FOOD Administrators 800 III