The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1918-11-30

| producer ana the insurance OF an ade-
| quate future supply.
These foreign orders are placed
upon The busIs OF cost OF hogs to the
| packers.
AS the result OF long negotiations
between this body and the Packers
Committee, representing the 45 to 80
! packers participating In foreign or
ders, together with the Allied buyers,
all under the Chnirmnnship of the
Food Administration, the following un-
dertaklng has been given by the pack
ers:
insvlew of-the undertakings on the
part of the Food Administration with
regard TO the co-ordlnated purchases
of pork products. covered In the ut-
tached, II Is agreed that the packers
participating In these orders will un.
dertake not TO purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed mInlmunis
for the month of November, that Is a
daily minimum Of $17.50 per hundred
pounds cn average Of packers droves.
excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs"
to he defined as pigs under l30
pounds, stays, boars, thin sows and
skips Further that no hogs OF any
kind shall be bought, except throw
outs, az less than $l650 per hundred
pounds, The average of packers
drOyes 10 be construed as the average
Of the total saAes In the market Of all
hogs for given day All the above
/ TO be based on Chicago.
/ INa uuraA thnf "a anppntftna obnII lao
appointed by the Food Administration
to check the daily operations In the
various mSrkets with view TO super
vision and demonstration OF the carry
! Ing oul OF the above.
The ability of the packers to carry
out this arrangement viii depend on
there being a normal marketing of
hogs based upon the proportiOnnte In
crease over the receipts OF last year
The increase In production appears 10
| be maximum OF about 15 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 lncreas-
| ing numbers over the above IL Is en-
tirely beyond the ability of the pack
ers TO maintain these minimums, and
! therefore we must have the co-opern-
tion OF the producer himself To main
! tain these results. II Is physical
imposslblity for the capacity OF The
packing houses to handle similar
over-nood of hogs and to find Il market
for the output. The packers are nnN-
! i0us to cooperate with the producers
| In maintaining stabilization of price
and to see that producers receive
| 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 committee comprising Mr. Thom-
as Il. Wilson, chairman of the Pack
ors' Committee; Mr. Everest Brown,
president OF tie Chicago Livestock ES-
| change; Major Roy Of the Food Ad-
mlnIstraton, Mr.. Louis ID. Hall of the
Bureau of Markets, to undertake the
supervision of the execution OF the
| plan In the various markets. CompliS-
sion men are asked TO cooperate in
carrying out the plan embodied In the
| pf fckers' agreement. 1t must he evil
dent that offers by commission men 10
sell hogs below the minimum estab-
lshed above Is not fair, either 10 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. -
1t Is believed by the conference that
this new plan, based US II Is upon II
positive minimum basis, will bring bet
Ter results 10 the producer thnn aver
age PRICES for the month. II does not
limit top prices ana should narrow
the margins necessary 10 country buy
ers in more variable markets. II Us
believed that the plan should work out
close to $1S average
Swine producers of the country will
contribute. to their own interest by
not flooding the market, for II must be
evident that II an excessive over per-
centage OF hogs Is marketed In any
one month price stabilization and con-
troll cannot succeed and 1t IA certain
that producers themselves can contrl-
butte materially TO the efforts of the
conferences If they Will do their mark
citing In as normal way as possible.
The whole situation as existing Mt
present demands frank and explicit
assurance from the conferees repre-
sented---namely, that every possible
effort will be made to maintain II live
hog price commensurate with swine
production costs and reasonable sell
| ing values In execution of the declar-
ed policy of me Food Administration
10 use every agency IN rs control to
/ secure Justice to the farmer
The siabill2atiop methods adopted
for November represent the best ei'
forts OF the conference, concurred i
1 nv tho Food Administration AID H..