STEADIER HOG MARKETS PLANNED
Hog Producers and Packers Confer With Repre
sentatives of the Food Administration and
Agricultural Department and Adopt
New Plan of Regulation.
In accordance with the policy of the Food Administration since Its founda
tion to consult representative men In the agricultural Industry on occasions
of importance to special branches of the Industry, on October 24 there was
convened in Washington a meeting of the I.lve Stock Subcommittee of the
Agricultural Advisory Board and the special members representing the swine
Industry to consider the situation in the hog market.
The conference lasted for three days, and during this time met with the
executive committee of the fifty packing firms participating In foreign orders
for pork products and with the members of the Food Administration directing
foreign pork purchases.
The conclusions of the conference were as follows:
The entire marketing situation has
go changed since the September joint
conference as to necessitate an entire
alteration In the pluns of price stabi
lization. The current peace talk—has
alarmed the holders of corn, and there 1
has been a price decline of from 20
cents to 40 cents per bushel. The fact
thut the accumulations of low priced
corn In the Argentine and South Afri
ca would, upon the advent of peace
and liberated shipping, become availa
ble to the European market ha* cre
ated a great deal of apprehension on
the part of corn holders. This decline
has spread fear among swine growers
that a similar reduction in the prices
of hogs would naturally follow. More
over, the lower range of corn prices
would, if Incorporated In a 13-to-l ra
tio, obviously result in a continuously
falling price for live hogs. In view
of these changed conditions rnanj
swine producers anticipated lower
prices and as a result rushed their
hogs to market in largo numbers, and
this overshipment has added to and
aggravated the decline.
The information of the Department
of Agriculture indicates that the sup
ply of hogs has increased about 8 per
cent., while the highest unofficial esti
mate does not exceed 15 per cent, in
creased production over last year. On
the other hand, the arrival of hogs
during the last three weeks in the
seven great markets has been 27 per
cent, more than last year, during the
corresponding period, demonstrating
the unusually heavy marketing of the
available supply. In the face of the
excessive receipts some packers have
not maintained the price agreed lust
month. On the other hand, many
of the packers have paid over the
price offered to them in an endeavor
to maintain the agreed price. The re
sult in any event has been a failure
to maintain the October price basis
determined upon at the September con
ference and undertaken by the pack
ers. Another factor contributing to
the break in prices during the month
has been the influenza epidemic; it
has sharply curtailed consumption of
pork products and temporarily de
creased the labor staff of the packers
about 25 per cent.
The exports of 130.000,000 pounds
of pork products for October com
pared with about 52,000,000 pounds
in October u year ago, and the
export orders placeable by the Food
Administration for November, amount
to 170,000,000 pounds as contrast
ed with the lesser exports of
08,000,000 for November, 1917. The
increased demands of the allies are
continuing, and are In themselves
proof of the necessity for the large
production for which the Food Admin
istration asked. The increase in ex
port demands appears to be amply
sufficient to take up the increase in
hog production, but unfavorable mar
ket conditions existing, in October af
ford no fair index of the aggregate
supply and demand.
It must be evident that the enor
mous shortage In fats In the Central
Empires and neutral countries would
Immediately upon peace result in ad
ditional demands for pork products
which, on top of the heavy shipments
to the Allies, would tend materially
to Increase the American exports, in
asmuch as no considerable reservoir of
supplies exists outside of the United
States. It seems probable that the
present prospective supplies would be
inadequate to meet this world demand
with the return to peace. So far as it
Is possible to Interpret this fact, it ap
pears that there should be even a
stronger demand for pork products
after the war, and therefore any alarm
of hog producers as to the effect of
peace is unwarranted by the outlook.
In the light of these circumstances
It is the conclusion of the conference
that attempts to hold the price of hogs
to the price of corn may work out to
the disadvantage of pork producers.
It is the conclusion that any Interpre
tation of the formula should be a
broad gauged policy applied over a
long period It is the opinion of the
conference that in substitution of the
previous plans of stabilization the
Live Stock Subcommittee of the Agri-J
cultural Advisory Board, together with
the specially invited swine represents
ttves. should accept the Invitation of
the Food Administration to join with
the Administration and the packers in
determining the prices at which con
trolled export orders are to he placed
Tills will be regularly done. The in
fluence of these orders will be directed
to the maintenance of the common oh-1
j ec t —namely, the stabilization of the
price of live hogs so as to secure as far
A* it is possible fair returns to tbe i
producer and the insurance of an ade
quate 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 and the Packers’
Committee, representing the 45 to 50
packers participating In foreign or
ders, together with the Allied buyers,
all under the Chairmanship of the
Food Administration, the following un
dertaking has been given by the pack
ers :
Tn view of the undertakings on the
part of the Food Administration with
I regard to the co-ordinated purchases
of pork products, covered in the at
tached, it is agreed that the packers
participating in these orders will un
dertake not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed miuiinums
for tlte month of November, that is a
daily minimum of $17.50 per hundred
pounds on average of packers' droves,
excluding throw-outs. “Throw-outs”
to be defined as pigs under 130
pounds, stags, boars, thin sows and
skips. Further that no hogs of any
I kind shall he bought, except throw
| outs, at less than $16.50 per hundred
pounds. Tlte average of packers’
droves to be construed ns the average
| of the total sales in the market of all
hogs for a given day. All the above
to he based on Chicago.
1 We agrpe that a committee shall he
appointed by the Food Administration
to check tlie daily operations in the
various markets with a view to super
vision and demonstration of the curry
ing out of the above.
The ability of the packers to carry
out this arrangement will depend on
there being a normal marketing of
bogs based upon the proportionate in
crease over the receipts of lust year.
The Increase in production appears to
be a maximum of about 15 per cent,
and we can handle such an increase.
If 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 It is en
tirely beyond the ability of the pack
ers to maintain these minimums, and
therefore we must have the co-opera
tion of the producer himself to main
tain these results. It Is a physical
Impossibility for the capacity of the
packing houses to handle a similar
over-flood of hogs and to find a market
for the output. The packers are anx
ious to co-operate with the producers
in maintaining a stabilization of price
and to see that producers receive a
fair price for their products.
(Signed) THOS. E. WILSON,
Chairman Backers’ Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt
-1 ed by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint
ed a committee, comprising Mr. Thom
as E. WllSon, chairman of the Back
ers’ Committee; Mr. Everett Brown,
president of the Chicago Livestock Ex
change; Major Itoy 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. Commis
sion men are asked to co-operate in
carrying out the plan embodied in ttie
packers’ agreement. It must be evi
dent that offers by commission men lo
sell hogs below the minimum estab
lished 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 loyally support
i the plan.
It is believed by the conference that
this new plan, based as It Is upon u
positive minimum basis, will bring bet
ter results to the producer than aver
age prices for the month. It does not
limit top prices and should narrow
the margins necessary to country buy
ers In more variable markets. It Is
believed that the plan should work out
close to $lB average.
Swine producers of jhe country will
contribute to their own Interest by
not flooding the market, for It must he
evident that if an excessive over per
, centage of hogs is marketed in any
one month price stabilization and con
trol cannot succeed, and it is certain
that producers themselves can contri
bute materially to the efforts of the
conferences if they will do their mark
eting in as normal away as possible.
The whole situation as existing at
present demands a frank and explicit
j assurance from the conferees repre
-1 sented —namely, that every possible
'effort will tie made to maintain a live
hog price commensurate with swine
production costs and reasonable sell
i ing values in execution of the declar
ed policy of the Food Administration
to use every agency In its control to
secure justice to the farmer.
| . The stabilization methods adopted
■ for November represent the best ef
forts of the conference, concurred in
k by the FcjU Administration and tU*
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1918.
Livestock Subcommittee of the Agri
cultural Advisory Board, together
with special swine members and the
representatives of the packers, to im
prove the present unsatisfactory situ
ation, which has unfortunately result
ed because of the injection of uncon
trollable factors.
We ask the producer to co-operate
with us in a most difficult task.
The members of the Conference
were:
Breducers—H. C. Stuart, Elk Oar
den, Va., Chairman Agricultural Ad
visory Board; W. M. AlcFadden, Chi
cago, 111.; A. Sykes, Ida Grove, In.;
John M. Evvard, Ames, la.; J. H. Mer
cer. Live Stock Commission for Kan
sas; J. G. Brown, Monon, Ind.; E. C.
Brown. President Chicago Livestock
Exchange; N. 11. Gentry, Sednlta, Mo.;
John Grattan, Broomfield, Cfolo.; Eu
gene Funk, Bloomington, 111.; Isaac
Lincoln, Aberdeen, S. D. ; C. W. Hunt,
Logan, la.; O. E. Yancey, W. K. Dod
son.
Food Administration —Herbert Hoo
ver, F. S. Snyder, Major E. L. Koy, G.
H. Bowell.
Department of Agriculture—Louis
D. Hail, F. It. Marshall.
The packers present and others
sharing in foreign orders were repre
sented by the elected packers’ commit
tee. Those represented were:
Backers —Armour & Co., Chicago,
111.; Cudahy Backing Co., Chicago, ill.;
Morris & Co., Chicago, III.; Swift &
Co., Chicago, III.; Wilson & Co., Chica
go, 111.; John Agar Co., Chicago, III.;
Armstrong Backing Co., Dallas, Tex.;
Boyd Dunham & Co., Chicago, 111.;
Brennan Backing Co., Chicago, 111.;
Cincinnati Abattoir Co., Cincinnati,
O.; Cleveland Provisions Co., Cleve
land, O.; Cudahy Bros. Co., Cudahy,
Wis.; J. Dold Backing Co., Buffalo, N.
Y.; Dunlevy Backing Co., Pittsburg,
Bn.; J. E. Decker & Sons, Mason City,
la.; Evansville Backing Co., Evans
ville, Ind.; East Side Packing Co., East
St. Louis, 111.; Hammond Standish &
Co., Detroit, Mich.; G. A. Hormel &
Co., Austin, Minn.; Home Backing &
Ice Co., Terre Haute, Ind.; Independ
ent Backing Co., Chicago, 111.; Indian
apolis Abattoir Co., Indianapolis, Ind.;
International Provision Co., Brooklyn,
N. Y.; Interstate Backing Co., Winona,
Minn.; lowa Packing Co., Des Moines,
la.; Powers Begg Co., Jacksonville,
111.; Klngan & Co., Indianapolis, Ind.;
Krey Backing Co., St. Louis, Mo.; Lake
Erie Provision Co., Cleveland, O.; Lay
ion Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; Oscar Mayer
& 15r0., Sedgwick aud Beethoven
streets, Chicago, 111.; J. T. McMillan
Co.; St. Paul, Minn.; Miller & Hart,
Chicago, III.; J. Morrell & Co., Ottum
wa, la.; Nuckolls Backing Co., I’ueblo,
Colo.; Ogden Backing and Provision
Co., Ogden. Utah; Ohio Provision Co.,
Cleveland. O.; Barker Webb & Co., De
troit,. Mich.; Pittsburg Backing and
Provision Co., Pittsburg, Ba.; Hath
Backing Co., Waterloo, la.; Roberts &
Oake, Chicago, 111.; Kobe & Bros., New
York City ; W. C. Koutli & Co., Logans
port, Ind. ; St. Louis Ind. Backing Co.,
St. Louis, Mo.; Sinclair & Co., T. M.
Cedar Itapids, la.; Sullivan & Co., De
troit, Mich.; Theurer-Norton Provision
Co., Cleveland, O.; Wilson Provision
Co., Peoria, III.; Western Backing and
Provision Co., Chicago. 11l ; Charles
Wolff Backing Co., Topeka, Kao.
i I j
Says General Pershing, referring to
’one of the war work organizations :
A SENSE of obligation for the varied
and useful service rendered to the
army in France prompts me to j| j
join in the appeal for its further financial
support. I have opportunity to observe
its operations, measure the quality of its
personnel and mark its beneficial Influence
upon our troops, and I wish unreservedly
to commend its work for the army. * *
—General Pershing
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‘Boards Keep Tab On Railroad Men
Atlanta. —A letter has been receiv
ed hv the local boards in Atlanta and
other cities advising them that the
names of all men who leave the em
ploy of the railroads after having been
given deferred classifications, will be
reported to them. Tlte order has been
issued by the provost marshal general
and applies universally. The provost
marshal has further announced that
when any man within draft age who
is placed in a deferred classification
on account of essential work with the
railroads changes his position he then
loses that classification and his case
must be reconsidered. It is compul
sory on the part of railroad managers
that they shall immediately notify the
local draft board of any employee be
tween the ages of 18 and 45, who
leaves the employ of the railroad ad
ministration. This is necessary in or
der that every registrant shall have his
proper classification under the require
ments of the selective service act.
Industries Must Curtail Products
Atlanta. —Regardless of when the
war shall end, the resources and con
version section of the national war in
dustries is determined to enforce dras
tic curtailment in the manufacture of
the lesser essentials. Further orders
contained in bulletins issued at the of
fice for Region No. 12 affect the mak
ers of road-making machinery, watches
and clocks, saddlery and harness,
pocket knives, metal stamps and other
articles. In order to meet these cur
tailments, many southern manufactur
ers are already co-operating with the
war board and are offsetting the re
ductions in their outputs of these arti
cles by securing the government con
tracts which are only available when
the industry complies with the re
quirements of the government. These
curtailments, it was announced, aro
for the purpose of effecting a marked
saving of material, fuel, labor, capital
and transportation.
Georgia Cotton Seed Producers Meet
Atlanla.—A large number of Geor
gia farmers met in the office of J.
J. Brown, commissioner of agriculture,
and organized the Georgia Cotton Seed
Producers’ Association for the purpose
of co-operating with the federal gov
ernment in the protection of the in
dustry. Counties represenled at the
meeting were Bartow, Henry, Pauld
ing, Clayton, Newton, Terrell, Morgan,
and others. Organization was perfect
ed by electing the following officers:
Emerson George, Morgan county, pres
ident; James D. Weaver, Terrell coun
ty, vice president; L. W. Jarman, New
ton county, second vice president; M.
L. Johnson, Bartow county, third vice
president; H. T. Shaw, Morgan county,
secretary and treasurer.
Ford for Stile.
One used Ford in excellent
shape; good top; crown fenders;
new radiator. A bargain. See
Hicks Bros. & Peterson,
103tf Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Administrator’s Sale.
Georgia—Toombs County.
By virtue of au order granted
on the 2d day of September, 1918,
by the Ordinary of said county, I
will sell at public outcry on the
first Tuesday in December, 1918,
betweeu the legal hours of sale, at
the court house in Lyons, said
county, to the highest bidder,
the following described real estate
to wit:
A1 i that certain tract of land
situated iu the 1567th district G.
M. of Montgomery county, Ga.,
containing two hundred and six
and nine tenths (206.9) acres
more or less, bounded north by
lands of J. E Palmer, Mrs. Media
Hilton and D. A. Jackson, east by
Mrs. Medio Hilton and D. A.
Jackson, south by D. A. Jackson,
A. B. King, John Hall and J. E.
Schumpert's land and west by
lands of the estate of W. H. Mc-
Queen. The above described prop
erty is sold subject to a debt ow
ing to The Second Investors Mort
gage Security Company of SB9O 00,
due Nov. Ist, 1919, and $1,620 00,
due Nov. Ist, 1920, by the late
J. E. Sc hum pert.
Said property so Id for the purpose
of paying debts and distribution
among the heirs of the deceased.
This Oct. Ist, 1918.
W. S. Boatwright,
Adr. de Bonis Non Estate of J. E.
Sc hum pert.
W. M. Lewis, Attorney.
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j: THE DAYTON NEEDS I 2 SI :
NO PUMPING j jj'
i ITS LIFE IS ABOUT 1“ 1 H
| DOUBLE THAT OF THE VfA Jgl
ORDINARY TIRE
This is Economy in the
• real meaning of the word
; Regular Sizes 30 x 3 and 30 x 3 1-2
SPECIAL TIRES FOR
[ TRUCKS
j A Salesmen wanted for each town in ;
Montgomery county
C. W. WARNOCK
General Agent for Montgomery County
TARRYTOWN j
j 5 1-2 per ct. Money
TO LOAN
| I have plenty of money to lend on farm
; lands in Montgomery and Wheeler
j counties. Interest at 5 1-2 per cent.,
FIVE YEARS TIME-EASY PAYMENTS
: You have the privilege of paying part
i of the principal at any interest period,
and stop interest on amount paid; but
i no annual paymentofprincipal required
Prompt Attention to All Loans
Entrusted to Me
j Come to see me at once if you want a i
j loan. lam well equipped to take care ij
I of the loan business. See me.
| L. C. UNDERWOOD j
MT. VERNON. GA.
Highest Prices Paid
lor Live Stock.
We are constantly in the mar
ket for cattle and hogs. Many
years experience qualities us to
offer superior advantages to the
producers of this section. We
are in position to handle your
business in a most satisfactory
manner. Get our prices.
W. D. & C. W. Peterson,
9192 m Ailey, Ga.
LOANS ON FARM
LANDS.
Loans on improved farm
lands of Montgomery County can
be placed promptly at 5 l-2c in
terest in amounts of SI,OOO and
above, with the privilege of re
paying part of the principal at
any interest bearing periods in
amounts of SIOO or multiples
thereof, thereby stopping the in
terest on amount paid. Loans
can he made for periods of 57,
or 10 years to suit the borrower.
Commissions charged are reason
able. M. B. Calhoun,
Mt. Vernon, Ga,
R. E. Ward,
Soper ton, Ga.
