Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-11-21

were as foIIOWs:
producer and the Insurance of an ade.
i 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- ween this body and the Packers
Committee, representing the 45 to 90
packers participating In foreign or
ders. together with the Allied buyers,
oil under the Chalrmanship Of the
Food Administration, the following I'm.
d~ertaking has been given by the pack
ers:
In view Of the undertakings on the
part Of the Food Administration with
regard to the co.ordlnated purchases
OF pork products, covered in the at.
taehed, 1t Is agreed that the packers
participating In these orders will un-
dertake not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed mlnimums
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"
10 be defined as pigs under 100
pounds, stays, bears, 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 he above
to be based on Chicago.
W. agree that a committee shall he
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 about Is per cent.
and we can handle such an Increase.
II the producers of hogs should, as
they have In the past few weeks, pre-
maturely market hogs In such increas.
Ing numbers over the aboye It Is en-.
tirely beyond the ability Of the pack.
ers to maintain these minlmums, and
therefore we must have the co-opera-
tfon Of the producer himself to maln-
tain these results. II is a physical
imposslbllity for the capacity Of the
packing houses to handle q similar
over-lood 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.
tSlgned) 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.. Thomas
ID. Wilson, chairman Of the Pack.
ers' Committee; Mr.. Everett Brown,
president OF the Chicago Livestock Ex-
change: Major Roy of the Food Ad.
ministratiOn, Mr.. Louis D. Hall Of the
Bureau Of Markets. to undertake the
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. It must be evi.
dent that offers by commission men to
sell hogs below the minimum estab.
lished above Is not fair. either to the
producer or the participating packers.
Mr.. Brown hns 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 It Is upon a
positive minimum basis, will bring bet.
ter results to the producer than aver
age prices for the month. II does not
limit top prices and should narrow
the margins necessary to country buy.
ers In more variable markets. 1t 10
believed that the plan should work out
close to SIS average.
Swine producers Of the country will
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not flooding the market, for II must DO
evident that II an excessive over per.
centage Of hogs is marketed in any
one month price sterilization ana CON.
troll cannot succeed, and It Is certain
that producers themselves can contri.
butte materially to the efforts Of tho
conferences If they will do their mark.
citing in as normal a way as possible.
The whole situation as existing at
present demands a frank and explicit
from the c~onferees repre-
sented-namely, that every possible
effort will be made to maintain a live
hog. price commensurate with swine
costa and reasonable sell.
values In execution Of the declared
policy Of the Food Administration
10 use every agency In Its control to
secure justice to the farmer.
The sterilization methods adopted
for November represent the best ef.
forts OF the conference, c%oncurred In
by the Food Administration and the