The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-12-28
coIFAx GRANT PARISH La SATURDAY, DECEMBER g. 1918
believed that the plan should Work OUT
close TO S1S average.

believed that the plan should work OUT
close to s1S average.
Swine producers Of the country VIII
contribute to their own interest BY
not flooding the market, for 1t must DO
evident that II an excessive over per
centage of hogs is marketed In any
one month price sterilization and cor
troll cannot succeed. and 1t IL eertain.1
that producers themselves can contri-
bute materially to the efforts Of the
conferences II they will do their mark,
citing In as normal a way as possible
The whole situation az existing q
present demands frank and expiicn
assurance from the conferees repre-
sented-namely, that every possible
effort will be made to maintain q i've
hog price commensurate with swine
production costs and reasonable SELL
ing values In execution Of the declared 4
nolicy of the Food Administrations
to use every agency in its control %
secure Justice to the farmer. q
The qualification methods adopted
for November represent the best e.
forts of the conference, concurre0 IN
BIZ the Food Adminlstraton ana u
Livestock Subcommittee of the Agri
cultural Advisory Board, together
with special swine members and the]
representatives of the packers, to Inn
prove the present unsatisfactory stu
alton. which has unfortunately result
ed because Of the injection of uncon-1
trollable factors.
We ask the producer to cooperate
with us in a most difficult task.
The members Of the Conference
were:
Producers-H. G. Stuart. Elk Gar
den, Va, Chairman Agricultural Ad-
visory Board; w. NJ. McFadden. CHI
cago, ILL.,; A. Sykes. Ida Grove, Ia. !;
John NJ. Evvard, Ames. Ia; J. b. Mer.
Ger, Live Stock Commission for KAN
sas; J.. G. Brown, Monon. Ind; q. @.
Brown, President Chicago Livestock
Exchange; N. Il. Gentry, Sedalia. Mo. /;
John Grattan Broomfield. Colo; Eu.
gene Funk, Bloomington, H.; Isaac
Lincoln, Aberdeen, s. D.; @. w. Hunt,
Logan, Ia; c. E. Yancey, w. R. bod
!. SON..
Food inistration-Herbert Hoo
yer, f. s. Snyder, Major E. L. Roy. @.
81. Powell.
II Department of Agriculture-Iouia
u y. Hall r. r Marshall s-@4.--yssl'
The packers present and otherl
sharing in foreign orders were repre-
sented by the elected packers commit
: tee. Those represented were:
; Packers-Armour & Co., Chicago
> NJ. Cudahy Packing Co.. Chicago. III.
! Morris & Co., Chicago, H.; Swift 4
] Co., Chicago, ILL.,; Wilson & Co.. Chica
. 90, ILL.,; John Agar Co.. Chicago, ILL.,
Armstrong Packing Co.. Dallas. Tex.
0 Boyd Durham & Co., Chicago. III.
Brennan Packing Co.. Chicago, Ill.
Cincinnati Abattoir Co.. Cincinnati
: O.; Cleveland Provisions Co., Cleve
q land, O.; Cudahy Bros. Co.. Cudahy
Wis. ]. Dold Packing Co., Buffalo. n
E T.; Dunlevy Packing Co., Pittsburs
u Pal. E. Decker & Sons, Mason City
. Ia; Evansville Packing Co., Evans
Vile, Ind. East Side Packing Co., Eas
y St. Louis, H.; Hammond Standish
n Co.. Detroit, Mich; G. A. HORNED
70 Co., Austin, Mimi; Home Packing
+ Ice Co., Terre Haute, Ind. Indepent
= ent Packing Co., Chicago, H.; Indiar
apolis Abattoir Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
, International Provision Co., Brooklyn
u N. T.; Interstate Packing Co., Winon'
d Mimi; Iowa Packing Co., Des Moine
n Ia: Powers Begg Co., Jacksonville
=. H.; Kingan & Co., Indianapolis, Ind
- Krey Packing Co., st. Louis, Mo-. Lah
IT, Erie Provision Co., Cleveland, O.; La
ton Co., Milwaukee. Wis. Oscar May'
- & Bro, Sedgwick and Beethove
streets. Chicago. H.; ]. T. McMilla
. Co. st. Paul, Mimi; Miller & Har
= Chicago, Ill. ]. Morrell & Co.. O-tun
"A wa, la. Nuckolls Packing Co.. PrSsl
%. Colo; Ogden Packing and Prersasf
~ Co., ogden, Utah; Ohio Provision q
-, Cleveland, O.; Parker Webb & Co.. d
he troit, Mich; Pittsburg Packing al
=, Provision Co., Pittsburg, Pa; Ra
,et Packing Co., Waterloo, Ia. Roberts
~ Oake, Chicago, ILL.,; Robe & Bros, Ne
RS York City: w. G. Routh & Co., Logan
Ice port, Ind; st Louis Ind. Packing q
air st. Louis, Mo-; Sinclair & Co., I.
Cedar Rapids, Ia; Sullivan & Co.. Q
troit, Mich; Theurer-Norton Provisi
Co. Cleveland, O.; Wilson Provisi
nj. Co., Peoria, H.; Western Packing a
Provision Co., Chicago. ILL.,; CHAR
M Wolff Packing Co., Topeka, Kan.