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Newspaper Page TextST. HELENS MIST. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1918 STEADIER IIOGMARKETS PLANNED Hog Producers and Packers Confer With Repre sentatives of the Food Administration, and Agricultural Department and Adopt New Plan of Regulation. o changed line the Hcptemher Joint conference to Dweimltute nn entire Itrrutlou In the pluns of price atiihl Hiullon. The current pence talk lian ilurini'il (he holder of corn, and I hern linn liecn a price decline of from 'iTi renin to 40 cent per huHhel. The fuel tliHt the accumulations of low priced corn In the Argentine mid South Afri ca would, upon the advent of pence and lltierHtcd ithlpplhg, hrcoinc nvull tlile to the European murket Inn cre ated u giviit deul of HppreheiiHlon on Hie purt of com holders. This decline Inn Dpreud ear among swine grower thut u slmllnr reduction In the prices of hogs would naturally follow. More over, the lower rouge of com price would, If Incorporated In 13 to l ru tin, oIivIoumIjt result In a contlniioiiNly fulling price for lire hog, lu view of these changed condition! many wine producer anticipated lower price and aa a result rindied their linK to mnrket In lurge tinuiherii, and tlili overNhlptuent ling added to and lU'cravHted the decline. The liiforinntion of the Department of Agriculture Indicates that the suit ply of hogs hus Increased nhotit 8 per cent., while tho hlgheiit unolllclnl extl iimte doc not exceed 15 per cent. In creased production over IiiHt year. On the other hand, tho arrival of hogs during the Inst three, weeks In the Keven grent markets has been 27 per cent, more than last year, during the corresponding period, demonstrating the unusually heavy marketing of the avulliihlu supply. In tho face of the exresNlve receipts somo packers hnve not maintained the price agreed last month. On the other hand, many of the puckers huve paid over the price offered to them In an endeavor to maintain the agreed price. The re milt In any event hus heeu a fullure to maintain the Octoher price hnsls determined upon at the September con ference mid undertaken hy the pack ers. Another factor contributing to the break In prices during the month lins been the Infltienin epidemic; It has sharply curtailed consumption of pork products and temporarily de creased the labor stuff of the packers nlw... UK . uoirui .i er irrnu The exports of 1.10.000,000 pounds of pork products for October com pared with uhout 62,000,(100 poiiud8 In October a yenr ago, nnd the export orders pluceuhlo by the Food Administration for November, amount to 170,01)0,000 pounds lis contrast ed with the lesser exports of 1W,(KH),0U0 for November, 1017. The Increased demands of the allies are continuing, and are In themselves proof of the necessity for Die lurge production for which the Food Admin istration uski'd. Tho Increase In ex port demands appears to be amply sulllclent to tnko up the Increase In hog production, but unfavorable mar ket conditions existing In October af ford no fair Index of the aggregate supply and deniund. It must be evident that the enor mous shortage In fats In the Central Rinplrcs 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 Slates, It seems probable that the present prospective supplies would be inadequate to meet this World demand with the return to pence. So fur as It Is possible to Interpret this fact. It ap penrs, that there should be even a stronger demand for pork products lifter tho war, and therefore any nlnrm tif hog producers ns to the effect of peuce Is unwarranted by the outiooK. 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- tutlon 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 plaos of stnblll7.nl Ion the I-Ive Stock Subcommittee of the Agrt cultural Advisory Hoard, together Willi the specially Invited swine representn tlves, 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 order are to be placed. This will be reguluMy done. The In fluence of these orders will be directed to the maintenance of the common oh' Jcct nnnioly, the stabilization- of the , price of live hogs so as to sucure as fur Ida It la nnonlhla fnttt t-nl,ii-ta t ttta In accordance with Mm rw.il.'. n.- . ..... u AuminiBlrutlon since Its founda tion to consult representative men le agricultural Industry on occasion, of Importance to special branches of the Industry, on October 24 there was convened In Washington a meeting of ,e Live Stock Subcommittee of the Agricultural Advisory Hoard and tho special member. representing tll0 ,wlne Industry to consider the situation In the hog murket The conference lasted for three' day., and during thl. time met with the' neouilvt committee of (he nr., packing firms purtk-lpatlng In foreign order, for pork product, and Witt, the member, of the Food Administration directing forelgu pork purchases. The conclusions of the conference were as follows: The entire murkellng situation has . producer and tti in. . , . . "uiuim vi nn aue- iunte future supply. Jiiese foreign order, are placed imckers" f CMt 0f ,0 ,,,e As the result of t.. bwren this body and the I'ackers' Committee, representing tho 45 to 50 puckers participating n frt.K 0r ders. together with the Allied buyers. '" p Chairmanship of the r ood Administration, the following un dertuklng hus been given by the pack- In view of the underlain I? ft nil I ho part of the Food Administration with tegurd to the co-ordlnhted purchuses of pork products, covered In the at- .., u is agreed thut the packers purtlciiinting in tlx OrdtTN 11111 tin. derlake not to purchase hogs for less than I he following agreed minimum for the month of November, thut Is a dully minimum of $17.50 per hundred pounds on average of puckers' droves, excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs" to he denned as pigs under 130 pounds, stags, boars, thin sows nnd skips. Further, that no horn of nnv kind shull be bought, excent throw- outs, at less tlmn 110.50 per hundred pounds. The average of packers' droves to be construed as the average of tho total sales In the murket of all hogs ror a given duy. All the above to be based on Chicago. We agree that a committee shall be nppolnted by the Food Administration to check the dully operations In the vurlous markets with a view to super vision ana demonstration of the carry ing out of the above. The ability of the packers to carry out this arrangement will depend on there being a normal marketing of hogs based upon the proportionate In crease over the receipts of lust yesr. The Increase In production appears to bo a maximum of about 15 per cent, and wo can handle such an Increase. If the producer, of hogs should, as they have In the past few weeks, pre- maturely market hogs In such Increus log numbers over tho above It I. en tirely beyond the ability of the pack ers to muliituln these minimum, 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 capnclty of the packing houses to handle a similar over-flood of hogs and to find a market for tho output The packers are anx ious to co-operate with the producers In maintaining a stabilisation of price and to seo. thut producers receive a fulr price for their products. (Signed) THOS. K. WILSON, ' Chairman Puckers' Committee. Tho plnn embodied above was adopt ed by the conference. The Food Administrator has appoint ed a comndttee; comprising Mr. Thomas E. Wilson, chairman of the Pack 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 llurenu 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 plnn embodied In the packers' agreement It must bo evi dent that offers by commission men to sell hogs below the minimum estab lished above Is not fulr, either to the producer or the participating packers. Mr. Rrown has undertaken on behalf of the commission men In the United States that they will loyally support tho plan. It Is believed by the conorence thnt this new plnn, based as It la upon a positive minimum basis, will bring bet ter results to the producer than aver age prices for the month. It docs not limit top prices and should narrow the margins necessary to country buy er. In more variable markets. It Is believed that the plan should work out close to $18 average. Swine producer, of the country will contribute to their own Interest by not flooding the market for It must be evident thut If an excessive over per centage of hogs I. marketed In any one month price stabilisation and con trol cannot succeed, and. It Is certain thnt producers themselves can contri bute materially to the effort, of tho conference. If they will do their mark eting In as normal a way a. possible. The whole situation a. existing at present demands a frank and explicit assurance from the conferees repre sentednamely, that every possible effort will be made to maintain a live hog price commensurate with .wine production cost, and reasonable sell ing value. In execution of the declared policy of the Food Administration to use every agency In It. control to secure Justice to the farmer. The stabilisation methods ndopted for November represent the best ef forts of the conference, concurred In by tbo Food Administration and tut Livestock Subcommittee of rha Airrt. cultural Advisory Hoard, together with speclul swine member, and the representutlves of the packers, to Un prove the present unsatisfactory situ ation, which ha. unfortunately result ed because of the Injection of uncon-. trolluble factor: We ask the producer to co-operate with u. in a most difficult task. The member, of the Conference were : Producer- IL C. Stuart, Elk Gar den, Va., Chairman Agricultural Ad visory Board; W. M. McFadden, Chi cngo, Hi.; a. Syke., Ida Grove. Iu.; John M. Evvard, Ames, la. ; J. H. Mer cer, Live Stock Commission for Kan sas; 3. O. Brown, Monon, Ind.; E. C. Brown, President Chicago Livestock Exchange; N. IL Oontry. Hedalla, Mo.; John Urattan, Broomneld, Colo.; Eu gene Funk, Bloomlngton, III.; Isaac Lincoln, Aberdeen, 8. D. ; C. W. Hunt Logan, la.; C. E. Yancey, W. B, Dod-. son. Food Administration Herbert Hoo ver, F, S. Snyder, ilajor E. L. Boy, O. H. Powell. Department of Agriculture Louis D. Hall, F. B. Marshall. The packer, present and others sharing In foreign order, were repre euted by the elected packer.' commit tee. Those represented were : Parkers Armour k Co., Chicago, III. ; Cudahy Packing Co., Chicago, III. ; Morris & Co., Chicago, 111.; Swift k Co., Chicago, 111. ; WUson & Co., Chica go, III.; John Agar Co., Chicago, 111.; Armstrong Packing Co., Dallas, Tex.; Boyd Dunham k Co., Chicago, III.; Brennnn Packing Co., Chicago, III.; Cincinnati Abattoir Co., Cincinnati, O. ; Clcvelund Provisions Co., Cleve land, O.; Cudahy Bros. Co., Cudehy, Wis. ; J. Dold Packing Co., Buffalo. ft. Y. ; Dunlevy Packing Co., Pittsburg. Pu. ; J. E. Decker k Sons, Mason City, Iu. ; Evansvllle Packing Co., Evans vllle, Ind. ; Kust Side Packing Co., East St. Louis, 111.; Hammond Stnndlsh k Co., Detroit Mich.; O. A. Hormel k Co., Austin, Minn.; Home Packing k Ice Co., Terre Huute, Ind. ; Independ ent Packing Co., Chicago, III.; Indian apolis Abattoir Co., Indianapolis, Ind.; International Provision Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Interstate Packing Co., Winona, Minn.; Iowa Packing Co., De. Moines. Ia.; Powers Begg Co., Jacksonville, 111. ; Klngnn k Co., Indianapolis, Ind. ; Krey Packing Co., St. Louis, Mo. ; Lake Erie Provision Co., Cleveland, O. ; Lay ton Co., Milwaukee, Wis. ; Oscar Mayer k llro., Sedgwick and Beethoven streets, Chicago, III.; J. T. McMillan Co.; St. Paul, Minn.; Miller k Hart. Chicago, III. ; J. Morrell k Co., Ottura wu, la. ; Nuckolls Packing Co., Pueblo, Colo. ; Ogden Pucklng and Provision Co., Ogden, Utah ; Ohio Provision Co., Cleveland, O. ; Parker Webb k Co., De troit Mich.; Pittsburg Packing and Provision Co., Pittsburg, Pa.; Bath Packing Co., Waterloo, la.; Bobert. & Ouke, Chicago, HI.; Itohe k Bros., New York City ; W. C. Itouth k Co., Logans port, Ind. ; St. Louis Ind. Packing Co., St Louis, Mo.; Sinclair k Co., T. M. Cedur Itiiplds, In.; Sullivan k Co., De troit, Mich. ; Theurer-Norton Provision Co., Cleveland, O. ; WUson Provision Co., Peoria, III. ; Western Packing and Provision Co., Chicago. III. ; Charles Wolff Packing Co., Topeku, Kan. BIG FALLING OFF TM I GERMAN BIRTH RATE Decline of 40 Per Cent Imported In Births Between 1018 and 1916 A decrease In Germany's live births from 1,839,000 In 1913 to 1. 103,000 in 1916 a falling off of 40 per cent is revealed by figures com-' piled from German sources by the British local government board and published in the Monthly Labor Re ' view of the bureau of labor statin-1 tics of the United States department of labor. During the same period the decrease In the number of live births in England and Wales was 10.9 per cent. In the effort to reduce Infant mor-' tallty the German authorities have undertaken three (schemes mater-i nlty grants, Increased work In wel fare centers for women and children, ' and special provision of suitable food for expectant or nursing moth-1 ers and for young children. j GOVERNOR MAKES ! VERY LONG TRIPS ! Alaskan Kxocutive Can Travel 5,000 Miles In Own Commonwealth j T . . .. . I duue.v.u, AmBKR r ew governors I under the Stare and Stripes can travel 6,000 miles within their cora ! mon wealths, and Governor Thomas I KIggs, Jr., of Alaska Is o-.e of the ! few. In making a tour of his terri tory he goes from Juneau to Nome I on the first lap, then crosses the ; Gulf of Alaska and goes up Cook In I let to Anchorage. At Fairbanks he I strikes the Tanana river and boards a sternwheel river boat for St. I Michael on Bearing sea. Thence an -ocean vessel or launch takes him to ' Nome. HRISTMAS IS Coming! Uncle Sam Says: "GIVE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, BUT GIVE USEFUL GIFTS" What more useful article could be given than a piece of FuRNITURE. We have a large assortment oj Rockers, Tables, Chairs, Magazine Racks, Eta, for Young and Old Make your selection early. A small deposit will hold it for you E. A. ROSS BANK BLDG. ST. HELENS REAL SERVICE The wool-production estimate of ; the bureau of crop estimates makes I the clip of 1918 amount to 257,- 921,000 pounds in the grease; pulled I wool Is not included. The clip of 1917, revised estimate, was 241, 1 892,000 pounds. In an Oregon county where 710 women enrolled In the classes and j clubs organized by the home demon stratlon agent 233 household account books were placed as a result of the (activity of the agent In creating in , terest in thrift and home manage ment. These are the days when the argu ments pro and con about whiskey are being renewed. A public lecturer reports from Kentucky: "I heard the other day a mallg nant story about a Kentucky colonel. 'Colonel,' a man asked him, 'Is there any cure for snake bite except whis key?' 'Who cares,' snorted the colonel, 'whether there is or nor?' " There are many little tricks employed by good buyers in judging quality. And we are perfectly willing to share our secrets wkh you. We buy only the best, but we want you to know right at the time of your purchase that you are getting what you want. DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING vEARLY This applies to that CHRISTMAS FOWL as it does to the presents vou will buy. Order now and let us help you select the TURKEY, GOOSE or CHICKEN you want. Central. Meat Market RAY MORTON and GEORGE WILSON', Proprietors Phone 60 Free and Prompt Delivery Try a Mist Want Ad-They Pay Adulation is all rlzht in Us pi .ce, but It is impossible to see merit in Mr. Josephus Daniels' enthulnstlc as sertion that Mr. Wilson's "fourteen demands" rank with the historic ut terances of Mr. Lincoln at Gettys burg. Some way we have never heard (hat Mr. Lincoln's address required amendment, amplification or inter pretation. New York Herald. ' , When the dealer Informed her that the price of eggs was fifty cents per dozen, she exclaimed: "Fifty cents! Why, that's more than four cents for each egg!" "Yes, mum," said the dealer, "but you must remember that one egg is a whole day's work for a hen!' About Croup If your children are subject to croup, or it you have reason to fear their being attacked by that disease, you should procure a bottle o. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and ntudy the directions for use, so thut In case of an attack you will know exactly what course to pursue. This is a favorite and very successful remedy for croup, and it Is impor tant that you observe the directions carefully. THERE'S WORK EVERY Dfflf. ON ANY FARM tffe Spreading Mmurt Christmas Goods Here UNIVERSAL. TRACTOR You are cordially invited to call and inspect our line of JEWELRY. A LARGE SELECTION From winch Vou r' may choose. Suitable and use ful CHRISTMAS PRES ENTS have just arrived. Our showing in seasonable SILVERWARE is large and well selected. VON A. GRAY THE JEWELER St. Helens, Ore. Morning You can make more money with the Moline-Univcrsal than any other tractor because it can be kept at pro ductive work more days a year no matter how large or small your farm ' or what crops you grow. This is be cause the Moline-Universal is built to fit the farm and every operation on the farm. It is not limited to a few operations, nor to certain classes of .work. The Moline-Universal wilt do any thing any other tractor will do and in addition an infinite variety of work impossible for any other tractor. You can find work for it every day in the year. If for no other reason than the fact that the Moline-Universal will do more and better work and can be kept busier than any other tractor, it is your best buy. But the greatest advantage of the Moline-Universal is that one man controls both tractor and Implement in all operations. You sit on the seat of the implement, where you must sit in order to do good work, and con trot the entire outfit. This mean3 that you can farm more land than was ever before possible, with either horses or tractor. , , ' The wonderful versatility and one man control of the Moline-Universal are due to its two-wheel construc tion. It attaches direct to the imple ment and forms one compact unit with it the tractor the front wheels and the implement the rear wheels. pvery control on Dotn uaciojc implement is within reach, making easy handling of the entire outfit, which can be turned in a 16-foot 1 circle, and backs as readily as it goes forward. A boy or woman can nan die it as well as a man. ' Due to its two-wheet construction which makes all its power available for pulling and greater speed, the Moline-Universal Tractor will do as much work in a day of ten hours with two 14-inch plow bottoms as the average three-plow tractor. The high clearance of the Moline Universal Tractor, as great as that of the average cultivator, and its light weight make it perfectly adapted' for cultivating. With a two-row cultiva tor, it cultivates from 14 to 80 acres a day. There is hardly anything on the farm that it cannot do. For odd jobs it is converted into a four-wheel unit by means of a rear carrying truck, to which any implement on the v farm may be attached in the ordi nary way. . , . , From a mechanical standpoint, the Moline-Universal Tractor measures tip to the very limit of modern engi neering knowledge. Perfected over- head-valve four-cylinder engme, com plete enclosure of alt working parts, electric starting and lighting system with electrical engine governor, and differential lock are only a few of the many improved features. It will pay you to stop and examine this latest and best of all tractors the next time you are in town. Jforntstng . f . , rr t- a nwAnp - 1 I have made arrangements so I can let you nave one 01 tnese ikauiwro on very u . ti . ... :4...4.a4 urriA rw nhntio tn m at Sr. Helens. vantageous Terms, n you cue nucisaiw, - $1620 F. O. B. St. Helens, including two plows J. F. DOFFLrvIAIER THE TRACTOR MAN ST. HELENS, OREGON