The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-11-23

were as follows:
nrcyious plans of Sterilization thu
live Stock Subcommittee Of the Agri
cultural Advisory Board, together will
the specially invited swine representa-
lives. should accept the invitation o.
the Food Administration to join will
the Administration and the packers II
determining the prices ut which con
trolled export orders are to he placed
This will be regularly done. The In
fiuence Of these orders will be directed
10 the maintenance Of the common oh
1ect-nnmely. the sterilization OF thu
price Of live hogs so us to secure as fal
as 1t Is possible fair returns to thu
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 aud the Packers
Committee, representing the As to 50
packers participating In foreign or.
ders, together with the Allied buyers,
all 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 the cO-Ordinated purchases
OF pork products. covered in the at
tached, 1t Is agreed that the packers
participating In these orders will un-
dertakc not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed minimums
for the month of November, that is a
daily minimum OF $3.50 per hundred
pounds on average Of packers droves,
excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs"
to be defined as pigs under 40
pounds. stays. bOars, thin sows and
skips. Further that no hogs of any
kind shall he bought, except throw
outs, at less than $3.50 per hundred
pounds The average Of packers
drOves 10 he construed ns the average
OF the total s;'sS in The market Of all
hogs for given day. All the above
to he based on Chicago.
We agree that Il committee sImll he
appointed by the Food Administration
to check the daily operations In the
various markets with view to s,per-
vision and demons; ration Of the carry
ing out Of the above.
The ability Of the packers to carry
out this arrangement, vii! depend IN
there being II normal marketing .f
hogs bnScd Upon The pruporiiouate la
crease over The rs.r;:,:~ nf last wear.
The increase in prM"r::oI appears to
he EaNi.nun of about l. pcr cent.
and we can handle such an increase
If the producers az hogs should. ~
they hay" In the past few weeks. pro-
maturcly market hogs in such irrcas-
ing numbers over the above n is on
tirely beyond the ability Of tho pack
ers to maintain these ,n,.illu,,S. and
therefore We must have the ro-OIMr;,.
ton of the producer hi,nSrl: to MAIN
tain these results. II Is II physical
impossibility for the capacity of the
packing houses to handle o si,n.lar
flood Of hogs and 10 find market
for the output, The PACKERS are unx-
ious TO cooperate With The producers
In maintaining II Sterilization of price
and to see that producers receive
fair price for their products.
(Signcd) TIIOS. H. WILSON.
Chairman Packers Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt.
ed by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint
ed a committee, comprising Mr.. Thorn
as E. Wilson, chairman Of the Pack
ers' Committee: Mr.. Everett Brown,
president Of the Chicago Livestock FIX
change; Major Roy Of the Food Ad-
ministration. MIR. Louis D. Hall Of the
Bureau Of Markets, to undertake the
plan In the various markets. Commits
sion men are asked to cooperate In
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-
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 support
the plan.
It II believed by the conference that
this new plan, based as 1t is upon q
positive minimum basis, will bring bet
ter results to the producer than aver