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In accordance with the policy of the Food Administration sln c e its founds
(c „ to consult representative men In the agricultural Industry on occasions
j importance to special branches of the Industry, on October 24 there was
Evened ft Washington a meeUng of the Uve Stock Subcommittee of the
^cultural Advisory Board and the special members representing the swine
hdustry to consider the situation In the hog market.
The conference lasted for three days, and during this time met with the
naive committee of the fifty packing firms participating in foreign orders
|r pork products and with the members of the Food Administration directing
foreign pork purchases.
The conclusions of the conference were as follows:
-U3DGEVILLB. GEORGIA.
STEADIER HOG MARKETS PLANNED
Hog
i Producers and Packers Confer With Repre
sentatives of the Food Administration and
Agricultural Department and Adopt
New Plan of Regulation.
The entire marketing situation has
( bunged since the September joint
aferencu us to necessitate an entire
.Iteration In the plans of price stabl-
Ization. The current peace talk has
■larnuHl the holders of corn, and there
been a price decline of from 25
slits to cents per bushel. The fact
that the accumulations of low priced
wr u hi the Argentine and South Afrl-
„ would, upon the advent of penfe
mi liberated shipping, become nvalln-
Ue to the European market has ere-
iteil a great deal of apprehension on
Die part <>f corn holders. Tills decline
las spread fear among swine growers
Hat a similar reduction In the prices
cl bogs would nnturnlly follow. More
over, the lower range of corn prices
would, If Incorporated In a 13-to-l ra
tio, obviously result In a continuously
Riling price for live hogs. In view
cl these changed conditions many
prine producers anticipated lower
prices and ns a result rushed their
kgs to market In lnrge numbers, and
tile overshipment has added to and
Iggravated the decline.
The Information of the Department
I Agriculture Indicates that the sup
ply of hogs 1ms Increased about 8 per
cent, while the highest unofficial esti-
gute does not exceed 15 per cent. In
creased production over last year. On
the other band, the arrivul of hogs
taring the lust three weeks In the
even great markets tins been 27 per
cent, more than lust year, during the
irrespondlng period, demonstrating
e unusually heavy marketing of the
ivallable supply. In the fnce of the
cessive receipts some puckers have
it maintained the price agreed last
onth. On the other hand, many
! the packers have paid over the
1ce offered to them In nn endeavor
maintain the ngreed price. The re
lit In any event has been n failure
o maintain the October price basis
letertnlned upon at the September con-
e and undertaken by the pack-
Another factor contributing to
ho break In prices during the month
s noon the Influenza epidemic; It
I sharply curtailed consumption of
»rk products and temporarily de*
roused the labor staff of. the packers
ibotit 25 | or cent.
The exports of 130.000,(XX) pounds
>f pork products for October cotn-
with about 52,000,000 pounds
a October a year ago, nnd the
sport orders plnconhle by the Food
Idmltrstr:ition for November^ amount
o lio.iKitj.tiiH) pounds us con trust-
"1 with the lesser exports of
8,000.000 for November, 1017. The
Dcreased demands of the allies are
lontitiulng, and are In themselves
'f "f the necessity for the large
iroductlon tor which the Food Admin-
(ration asked. The Increase In ex-
lort demmids appears to he amply
ttficlent to ti.Ui. up the Increase hi
lu £ product 1 m, but unfavorable mnr-
*t conditions existing In October nf-
or ' 1 no fni, Index of the aggregate
■PPly and demand.
It must he evident that the enor-
J'«:s shortage In fats In the Central
i.ipir.s and neutral countries would
tatneillntcly upon pence result In nd-
itionul demands for pork products
'Ihcli, on top of the heavy shipments
0 the Allies, would tend materially
• Increase the American exports. In*
lSnu< ' 11 as no cutislderahle reservoir of
applies exists outside of the United
!l #tes. p seems probable that the
prospective supplies would be
®*<ta)uate to meet this world demand
hth the return to peace. So far as It
1 possible to Interpret this fact. It np-
* ars that there should he even a
' rotipor demand for pork products
, ar ,lie "nr, and therefore any nlnrm
producers ns to the offset of
cc * s unwarranted by the outlook.
the light of these clrcumstnnces
8 the conclusion of the conference
Attempts to hold the price of hogs
k. ti prlce of coru may work out to
) Isndvntuttge of pork producers.
■ the rnnriuslon that any Interpre-
y ? ” f t,,e formula should he s
«!.' 1:11 UKe< ^ Policy applied over n
oaf,, 1 18 t * ,e opinion of the
f.,.1 ' ,1CL ‘ **’ at In suhstltutkvn of the
(vc" UN J , ' Bns stabilization the
Sl ‘hcommlttee of the Agri-
h»s, U , lvlsor y Board, together with
vex i 111 ' lnvlte< ' swine represents
\ * >“uUl accept the invitation of
^ministration to Join with
ministration and the packers In
tilled " " K t,le I >r ' c *s »t which con-
bi, «nf I J ort or< lers are to be placed.
Sac. “* re l»ularly done. The In
to. 'hese orders will be directed
eu... 8 "'fennnee of the common oh-
Wo'n, ,hp stabilization of the
i, vr l,0 K» so as to secure as far
possible fair returns to the
producer and the Insurance of an ade
quate future supply.
These foreign orders are placed
puckers.* b “‘“ °* C ° St ° f hog * ‘° Ule
As the result of long negotiations
Coinmrn thlS b ° dy nntl the Papers’
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 paek-
In view of the undertakings on the
pnrt of the Food Administration with
regard to the co-ordlnuted purchases
of pork products, covered In the at
tached, It Is agreed that the packers
participating in these orders will un
dertake not to purchnse hogs for less
than the following agreed mlnlmums
for the month of November, that Is s
dally minimum of $17.50 per hundred
pounds on average of packers' droves,
excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs”
to be defined ns pigs under 130
pounds, stngs, hours, thin sows and
skips. Further that no hogs of any
kind shall be bought, except throw-
outs, at less than $16.50 per hundred
pounds. The average of packers'
droves to be construed os the average
of the total sales In the market of till
hogs for n given day. All the above
to bo based on Chicago.
We agree that a committee shall he
appointed by the Food Administration
to check the dally operations in the
various markets with a view to super
vision nnd demonstration of the carry
ing out of the above.
The ability of the packers to carry
out this arrangement will depend on
there being n normal marketing of
hogs based upon the proport'onate In
crease over the receipts of last year.
THe Increase in production nppears 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 mlnitnutns, nntl
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 n similar
over-flood of hogs nnd 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 Packers' Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt
ed by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint
ed n committee, comprising Mr. Ihoni-
as E. Wilson, chairman of the Pack
ers' Committee; Mr. Everett Brown,
president of the Chicago Livestock Ex
change; Major Hoy 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 the
packers’ agreement It must he evi
dent that offers by commission men to
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 tlv? commission men In the United
States that they will' loyally support
the plan.
It Is believed by the conference that
this new plan, based as It Is upon a
positive minimum basis, will bring bet
ter results to the producer than nver-
n-'e prices for the month. It does not
Unilt top prices nnd should narrow
the margins necessary to country buy
ers In more variable markets. It Is
believed that the plan should work out
close to $18 average.
Swine producers of the country will
contribute to their own interest h.v
not flooding the mnrkst, for It must be
evident that if an excessive over per
centage of hogs is marketed In any
one month price stabilization and con
tra! cannot succeed, and It Is certain
that producers themselves cua con tri
bute materially to the efforts of the
conferences If they will do mark
eting in ns normal a way as possible.
The whole situation ns existing at
:rrUTelnd[i'm n e :;iln°a live
L8 /ra= e . n nd ra r , e e ..:n?h,e 8 S
production of ,„ e dPolur .
M y" the Food Administration
to use every agency In Us control to
SrSSMV?
THE MILLEDOEVILLE NEWS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1918.
Livestock Subcommittee of the Agri
cultural Advisory Board, together
with special swine members and the
n^ re *tv tatlves the Packers, to Im
prove the present unsatisfactory situ
on, which has unfortunately reault-
of the Injection of uncon
trollable factor*.
_,V* 0,8 Producer to co-operate
with us In a moat difficult task.
The members of the Conference
were;
Producers—H. C. Stuart, Elk Gar-
. Ch#lr »n«n Agricultural Ad
visory Board; W. M. McFndden, Chl-
ca&o, IH.; A. Sykea, Ida Grove, la.;
John M. Evvard, Ames, la.; J. H. Mer
cer, Live Stock Commission for Kan-
aas; J. Q. Brown, Monon, Ind.; E. C.
Brown, President Chicago Livestock
Exchange ; N. H. Gentry, Sedalla, Mo.;
John Grattan, Broomfield, Cola; Eu
gene Funk, Bloomington, 111.; Isaac
Lincoln, Aberdeen, 8. D.; C. W. Hunt,
Logan, la.; c. E. Yancey, W. K. Dod
son.
Food Administration—nerbert Hoo
ver F. s. Snyder, Major E. L. Roy, O.
H. Powell.
Department of Agriculture—Louis
D. Hall, F. R. Marshall.
The packers present and others
sharing In foreign orders were repre
sented by the elected packers’ commit
tee. Those represented were:
Packers—Armour & Co., Chicago,
111.; Cudahy Packing Co., Chicago, 111.;
Morris & Co., Chicago, 111.; Swift &
Co., Chicago, 111.; Wilson & Co., Chica
go, 111.; John Agar Co., Chicago, III.;
Armstrong Pncklng Co., Dallas, Tex.;
Boyd Dunham & Co., Chicago, 111.;
Brennan Pncklng Co., Chicago, II!.;
Cincinnati Abattoir Co., Cincinnati,
O.; Cleveland Provisions Co., Cleve
land, O.; Cudahy Bros. Co., Cudahy,
Wls.; J. Dold Packing Co., Buffalo, N.
Y.; Dunlevy Packing Co., Pittsburg.
Pa.; J. E. Decker & Sons, Mnson City.
Ta.; Evansville Packing Co., Evnns-
vllle, Ind.; East Side Packing Co., East
St. Louis, 111.; Hammond Stnndlsli &
Co., Detroit, Mich.; O. A. Hormel &
Co., Austin, Minn.; Home Tacking &
Ice Co., Terre Haute, Ind.; Independ
ent Pncklng Co., Chicago. III.; Indlnn-
apolls Abattoir Co., Indianapolis, Ind.;
International Provision Co., Brooklyn,
N. Y.; Interstate Packing Co., Winona,
Minn.; Iowa Packing Co., Dos Moines.
Ia.; Powers Begg Co., Jacksonville,
111.; Klngan A Co., Indianapolis, Ind.;
Krey Pncklng Co., St. I.ouls, Mo.; Lake
Erie Provision Co., Cleveland, O.; Lay-
ton Co., Milwaukee, Wls.; Osenr Mayer
& Bro., Sedgwick and Beethoven
streets, Chicago, 111.; J. T. McMillan
Co.; St. Paul, Minn.; Miller & Hart.
Chlengo, 111.; J. Morrell & Co., Ottum
wa. Ia.; Nuckolls Packing Co., Pueblo,
Colo.; Ogden Packing nnd Provision
Co., Ogden, Utah; Ohio Provision Co-
Cleveland, O.; Parker Webb & Co., De
troit, Mich.; Pittsburg Packing and
Provision Co., Pittsburg, Pa.; Rath
Pncklng Co., Waterloo, la.; Roberts &.
Oake, Chicago, 111.; Rohe & Bros., New
York City; W. C. Iiouth & Co., Logans-
port, Ind.; St. Louis Ind. Packing Co
st. Louis, Mo.; Slnclnir & Co., T. M.
Cedar Rapids. Ia.; Sullivan & Co., De
troit, Mich.; Tlieurer-Norton Provision
Co., Cleveland, O.; Wilson Provision
Co., Peoria, 111.; Western Packing and
Provision Co- Chicago, 111.; Charles
Wolff Tucking Co., Topeka, Ivan.
Flowers for Winter.
Women who love (lowers arc busy
preparing bulb3 in bowls which m "st
be planted this week if the flowers are
o bo a-bloom by Christmas. The best
julbs for early flowering are white
Roman hyacinths and the vivid scar-
et dwarf tulips that look so gay in
the depths of winter. Mixed bowls of
these have very good egeet, or bowls
f mingled pale pink and mauve tu-
ips, or of sulphur and lemon tints are
>!so charming. The special-fibre is
he best planting medium and should
o kept well moistened hut not wet.
B’g, deep bowls or jars are needed
or the tall decorative lillies that can
he raised so successfully in fibre, but
veil drained flower pots and good pol
ing mould are best for crocuses.
These bulbs also do wonderfully well
n sunny window bexes planted as a
border and > between small hardy
shrubs, which serve as a protection to
horn. Oriental bowls are prettiest
or bulbs, especially the new bluo or
•ocn Chinese patterns.
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A goed workbag for a Christma3
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iresden ribbon six and one-half inch-
:s wide and one embroidery hoop,
tit two rounds of cardboard, the size'
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Divide the remaining ribbon in
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Collect UiIr linen for the henelllt cf
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