The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-08-24
CUTTING SUPPLY
TO BOOST PRICE
TWO CENTS POUND
100000 Young Pigs, 100000
S0ws Will be Removed
From Production
Is PER CENT OF CROP
Processing Tax to Finance Plan
to Restore Buying Power,
Reduce Surplus

The emergency hog program by
which the government plans to re-
move from production 100000
young pigs and 100000 sows will
mean hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars to Redwood county farmers,
hundreds of whom depend on hog
prices for a great share of their in
come.
The plan got under way Wednes-
day when thousands of hogs went to
markets throughout the middlewest,
including 10000 at South st. Paul,
some Of which were from Redwood
county. Through some slip-up, no
bonus was paid on hogs received at
South St. Paul on the opening day
but it is believed that the matter
will be righted and bonuses paid both
for Wednesday and for the rest Of
the time the plan is in operation
which is until October L.
The governments plan is based on
the idea that the destruction of Is
per cent of the pig crop will increase
the value Of the remaining hogs So a
hundred.
This increase in value does not
take into consideration the premium
paid on the Is per cent of the hogs
killed and the farmers will also have
in their possession the feed that
would have been necessary to feed
the Is per cent killed.
The hog buying program will re-
quire financing to the extent of $780,
000,00 This amount is to be raised
by processing tax.
Minnesota's swine-raisers are eau
toned against Cutting the markets
in their haste to take advantage of
the announcement of the Agricultural
Adjustment administration.
This warning comes both from w.
C. Coffey, dean and director of the
University Department of Agricul-
ture, and from w. C. Warburton, d.
rector of agricultural extension,
Washington, in close touch with the
Agricultural Adjustment adminstra-
ton.
Under the announced plan the
Agricultural Adjustment administra-
ton will pay 1910 per hundred
weight for spring pigs weighing
from Is to 80 pounds. For heavier
weights, the price will decrease rs
cents hundredweight for each five-
pound jump in weight, until a mini
mum of $3.50 hundredweight is
reached for pigs weighing from IS to
100 pounds. The price for piggy sows
will be the daily market price for
packer sows plus 81 per head with
out dockage. Such sows are subject
to inspection. and to qualify must ap-
pear to be ready to farrow within
three weeks, and must weigh not less
than 275 pounds.
The plan to make these purchases
is purely an emergency measure, de-
signed to relieve the present emer-
gency. It is expected that it will re-
move from the market this winter
about two billion pounds of potential
pork and bring the supply near to
effective demand, and, thus, to adj
vance prices as well as prevent a
further slump.
Hogs sold under the plan will be
marketed through the regular cham
nels, and will be processed by the
packers at cost. Pigs over 80
pounds and the better part of the
sows will be processed for food, such
as, salt side and cured pork, and will
be sold to the Federal Relief admin
istration at cost. All the other hogs
will be tanked; not competing, there
fore, with the regular market.
This emergency measure, says Mr..
Warburton, is not to be confused
with permanent program in rela-
ton to hogs, yet to be developed by
the adjustment administration.