Connecticut western news., 1918-11-14

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 and the Packers
Committee, representing the As to so
packers participating in foreign or
ders, together with the Allied buyers,
all under the Craftsmanship 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, it is agreed that the packers
participating in these orders will I'M
dertake not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed minimums
for the month of November, that Is
daily minimum of $3.50 per hundred
pounds on average of packers droves,
excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs"
to be defined as pigs under 100
pounds, stays, boars, thin sows and
skips. Further that no hogs of any
kind shall be bought, except throw
OUTS at less than $16.50 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 a committee shall be
appointed by the Food Administration
to check the daily operations in the
various markets with 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 about 10 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 over the above it is en-
tirely beyond the ability of the pack
ers to maintain these minimums, and
| therefore we must have the co-opera-
ton of the producer himself to main
I tain these results. 1t Is a physical
impossibility for the capacity of the
packing houses to handle a similar
over-food of hogs and to find market
for the output. The packers are anx-
ious to cooperate with the producers
in maintaining sterilization of price
and to see that producers receive a
fair price for their products.
(Signed) THOS. E. 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 Elk
change; Major Roy of the Food AID
ministration, Mr.. Louis D. Hall of the
Bureau of Markets, to undertake tho
supervision of the execution of the
plan In the various markets. Commits
sion men are asked to cooperate IL
carving out the plan embodied In thu
packers agreement 1t must be evi
dent that offers by commission men II
sell hogs below the minimum estao
Iished above is not fair, either to thu
producer or the participating packers
Mr.. Brown has undertaken on behal
of the commission men in the United
| nil
the plan.
It is believed by the conference tina
: this new plan, based as 1t is upon
= positive minimum basis, will bring bet
I fer results to the producer than aver
+ age prices for the month. 1t does no
limit top prices and should marrow
the margins necessary to country buy
: ers in more variable markets. 1t /
, believed that the plan should work on
f close to $1S average.
Swine producers of the country wi
c contribute to their own interest b
O. not flooding the market, for it must b
6 evident that if an excessive over pei
n centage of hogs is marketed In an
one month price sterilization and cor
: troll cannot succeed, and it is certai
a that producers themselves can contr
q butte materially TO the efforts of tn
q conferences if they will do their mari
a citing in as normal way as possible.
e The whole situation as existing 6
i present demands frank and explic
h assurance from the conferees repre-
l. sented-namely, that every possibl
# effort will be made to maintain a liv
h hog price commensurate with swim
n production costs and reasonable sci
l. ing values in execution of the decla
/ ed policy of the Food Administrative
J. TO use every agency in Its control
d secure justice to the farmer.
D The sterilization methods adopte
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