The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-11-22


lie hog market.
avs. and during this time met with the
ng firms participating In foreign orders
RS of the Food Administration directing
were as follows:
producer and the insurance of IN 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 50
pacSers 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 the cO-ordinated purchases
OF pork products, covered in the at
iached, 1t is agreed that the packers
participating In these orders will un-
dertake 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 100
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 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 normal marketing of
hogs based upon the proportionate in
crease over the receipts~of last year.
The increase in production appears TO
De a maximum of about Is per cent.
and we can handle such an increase.
II the producers Of hogs should, as
tney 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
tain these results. 1t is a physical
impossibility for the capacity of the
packing houses TO handle 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 stabilzation of price
ana TO see that producers receive q fair
price for their products. ~.
tSigneO THOS. e. WILSON.
Chairman Packers Committee
me plan embodied above was adopt-
ed by the conference,
Inc Food Administrator has appoint
ed committee, comprising Mr.. Thomas
r, Wilson, chairman of the Pack.
eis' Committee; Mr.. Everett Brown
president of the Chicago Livestock Ex-
change; Major Roy of the Food Ad.
minfstration, Mr.. Louis D. Hall of the |
bureau of Markets, to undertake. tbe |
supervision of the execution of the |
plan in the various markets. Commits. |
sion men are asked to cooperate in |
carrying out the plan embodied in the
packers agreement. 1t must be eyi.
dent that offers by commission men to
sell hogs below the minimum estob.
iished above is not fair, either to tho
producer or the participating packers.
AIR. Brown has undertaken on beba,f
OF the commission men in the United
states that they will loyalty support
the plan.
1t is believed by the conference that
THIS new plan, based as it is upon n
positive minimum basis, will bring bet.
tes results TO the producer than aver
age prices for the month. It does NOT
ilmit top prices and should narrow
the margins necessary to country buv.
ers IN more variable markets, TT Is
beiieved that the plan should work ont
close to SIS average.
swine producers Of the country win
contribute to their own interest nv
nor nooding the market, for it must ba
evident that IL an excessive over nor.
centage OF hogs is marketed in INV
one month price Sterilization and con.
troi cannot succeed, and it is certain
mat producers themselves can contri.
ou,e materially to the efforts of the
conferences If they will do their mari.
e'ing In as normal way as possible.
The whole situation as existin, ..
present demands a frank and exn,,c,t