The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
ON
 TRANSFORMATION
 ARE NOW REMOVED
Food Administration No Longer Has Power to Sta bilize Price Live Hogs,
 Says Statement
By Asssciated Press

Washington. March 5.-ftcmOval l of pork and pork products from the l export conservation list was an- nounccd tonight by the war trade
 board. effective tomorrow. At the l same time the board rescindcd the regulation by which hlI applica- tions for licenses to export these | commodities to European desttna- tions were required to bear a cer- tificate from the food ndministra- | tfon showing thnt the administra- tiOn had approved the sale price. The food administration, in an an nouncement issued simultaneously, said this action would destroy it's ability to further stabilize the price of live hogs and prevent pork increasing beyond
 the stabilized prices which the admin istration had desired to continue to March 31
 [. The war trade boards announcement also said that it had been advised that the allied provisions export commission had been dissolved and that purchases of foodstuffs for shipment to Greai Britain. France and Italy would nc l longer be made by that commission
 This commission was organized early in the war and all foodstuffs for the allies bought in America were pur- chased through it
 With removal of pork and pork prod ucts from the conservation list, the board announced that these commodi- ties could be. exported freely to the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Bel gium, Japan or Greece or thiir col onies, possessions or protectorates un- der the special export license issued February 26.
 Officials of the food administration had expected to reach an agreement before the first of the month on the continuance of the minimum prices for hogs, but after conferences with the war trade board and President Wilson 1t was announced that no decision would be possible until the President could consider the whole matter of ex- port embargoes.
 TWO STATEMENTS ISSUED Two statements were issued tonight by the food administration.
 One dealt entirely with the effect of the war trade boards order. The other said former Governor Stuart of vir- ginia, chairman of the national agri- cultural advisory committee, has sent Ito ..his committee and to the swine producers committee statement in- dorsing and warmly commenting the earnest. but unavailing efforts of the food administration" to maintain the minimum price for hogs.
 The statement regarding the board $ action said in part
 s'The practical effect of this action of the war trade board is to destroy the ability of the United States food administration to further stabilize the price of live hogs. It was the desire and has been the endeavor of tho food administration to continue this
 stabilization as heretofore until March
 31, when the normal marketing period of hogs farrowed in the spring of 1918 would have terminated.
 .sThe whole programme of stabiliza-
 tion of prices was the outgrowth of
 the imperative necessity for stimulated how production for war needs at a time when dangerous shortage of fats
 threatened the entire; allied world.
 "The obligati ton with respect to the
 pigs farrowed in the spring of 1918
 began with the marketing of Septem-
 ber,- and would have been terminated
 March s1. From S5 to 90 per cent of these hogs have been sold. The Flu
 ropean demand for hog products will
 increase rather than diminish. The (Ceueinued en Page Twe]