Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-15

were as follows:
I producer and the insurance of IN ade.
qunte 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 und the Packers
Committee, representing the 10 to 30
packers participating In foreign or,
ders, together with the Allied buyers.
nl' under the Chnlrmnnship OF the
Food Administration: the following lin.
dertaking has been given by the pack.
ers:
In view Of the undertakings on the
part Of the Food Administration with
regard to tho co-ordlnated purchases
OF pork products covered In tho at.
lached, II 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 rs pigs under 1870
pounds, stays. boars, thin sows and
sklps. Further, that no hogs OF any
Kind shall be bought, except throw
outs, ut 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 n 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
be maximum OF about 10 per cent
and we can handle such nm 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 above Il IL en-.
tirely beyond the ability OF the pack
ers TO maintain these mlnlmums, and
therefore we must have the co-opera.
tlon Of the producer himself TO mnIn.
tain these results II Is physical
imposslbility for the capacity OF the
packing houses 10 handle n similar
over-fiood Of hogs and TO find market
for the output. The packers are anx.
ious to cooperate with the producers
In maintaining stabilization OF price
and to see that producers receive fair
price for their products.
(SlgneD TH0S. r.. WILSON,
Chairman Packers Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt.
ed by the conference.
The Food Administrators has appoint.
ed committee. comprising Mr.. Thomas
II. Wilson, chairman of the Pack.
ers' Committee; Mr. Everett Brown,
president of the Chicago Livestock Er-
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 tho
: 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 iestab.
: llshed above is not fair, either to 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 as II is upon n
3 positive minimum basis, will bring bet
ter results TO the producer than aver
t age prices for the month. II does not
limit top prices and should marrow
the margins necessary to country buy.
B ers In more variable markets. II IL
D believed that the plan should work out
I close to S1S average.
Swine producers Of the country will
8 contribute to their own interest by
Q not flooding the market, for II must be
5 evident that II an excessive over per-
0 centage of hogs is marketed in any
!. one month price stabllizatlon and con-
: troll cannot succeed, and It. Is certain
q that producers themselves can contri-
a butte materially to the efforts Of tho
Q conferences II they will do their mark
9 citing In as normal Way as possible.
Q The whole situation as existing at
: present demands frank and explicit
b assurance from the conferees repre-.
: sented-namely, that every possible
( effort will be made to maintain a live
b hog price commensurate with swine
D production costs and. reasonable &c
i Ing values In execution of the declar
!. policy Of the Food Administrati
i to use every agency in Its control
d secure justice to the farmer.
= The stabilizatlon methods adop
e for. November represent the best
r forts Of the conference, concurre
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