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Agricultural Department and Adopt
New Plan of Regulation.
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I d accordance with the policy o f the Foed Administration since Its founda
tion to consult representstlrs men la ths agricultural Industry on occasions
o f importance to special branches o f ths tndu^pry, on-October 24 there was
convened In Washington a meeting o f ths li a s Stock Subcommittee o f the
Agricultural Advisory Board and the Special members representing the swine
Industry to consider the situation In the hog market.
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The conference lasted for.three days, and during this time m et with the
executive committee o f the fifty packing firms participating In foreign orders
Car pork products and with the members o f ths Food Administration directing
foreign pork purchases.
The conclusions o f the conference were as follows:
The entire marketing situation has producer and the Insurance o f an ade
aa changed since the September Joint quate future supply.
These foreign orders are placed
conference as to necessitate an entire
upon
the basis o f cost o f hogs to the
altpration in the plans o f price stab!
packefa.
Usatlon. Ths current peace talk has
Aa ths result o f tong negotiations
alarmed the holders o f corn, and there between this body and the Packers’
has been a price decline o f from 25 Committee, representing ths 45 to 50
cents to 40 cents per bushel. The fact packers participating In foreign or
that th<^ accumulations o f loyr priced ders. together with the Allied buyers,
core in the Argentina and South A fri all under the Chairmanship o f the
ca would, upon the advent o f peace Food Administration, the following un
and liberated shipping, become avails' dertaking has beea given by the pack
ers:
ble to the European market has cre
In view df the undertakings on ths
ated a great deal o f apprehension on
the part o f corn holders. This decline part o f {be Food Administration with
has Spread fear among swine growers regard to the ce-ordlnated purchases
o f iwrk products, hovered in the at
that a similar reduction la the prices
tached, It la agreed that the packers
o f hogs would naturally follow. More participating In these orders will un
over, the lower range o f corn prices dertake not to purchase hogs for lees
would. If Incorporated la a lS-to-1 ra than the following agreed minimums
tio, obviously result In a continuously fo r the mon
►onth o f November, that Is a
falling pHce for live hogs. Ip view dally minimum o f $12-50 per hundred
o f these changed conditions many pounds on average o f packers’ droves,
swine producers anticipated lower excluding throw-outs. “ Throw-outs”
prices and aa a result rushed their to^ be defined as pigs under ISO
hogs to market In large numbers, and pounds, stags, boars, thin .sows
skips. Funher that no hogs o f any
this overshipment has added to and
kind shall be bought, axeept throw-
aggravated the decline.
outs, at less than $lfi.50 per hundred
' The information o f the Department pounds.
The average a f packers’
o f Agriculture Indicates that the sup droves, to be construed aa the a ven g e
ply o f ¿togs has Increased about 8 per o f the total sales In the market o f all
cent, while the highest unofficial esti hogs for a given day. All the above
mate does not exceed 15 per gent in to be baaed on Chicago.
We agree that a committee shall ha
creased production over last year. On
appointed by the Food Administration
the other hand, the arrival o f
to check.the dally operations to the
durlag the last three weeks hr the
various markets with a view to super
seven great markets has bean 27 per
vision and demonstration o f the carry
cent, more than last year, during the ing out o f the above.
corresponding period, demonstrating „ The ability o f the packers to carry
the unusually heavy marketing o f the out this arrangement will depend on
available supply. In the face o f the there being a normal marketing of
excessive-receipts some packers have hogs based upon the proportionate In
not maintained the price agreed last crease over the receipts o f last year.
month.
On the other hand, many The Increase In production appears to
o f the packers have paid over the be a maximum o f about 15 per cent
and we can handle such an Increase.
price offered to them la an endeavor
I f the producers o f hogs should, aa
to maintain the agreed price. The re they have In the past few weeks, pre
sult in any event has been a failure maturely market hogs In such Increas
to maintain the October price basis ing numbers over the above It Is en
determined upon at the September con- tirely beyond the ability of the pack-
terence and undertaken by the pack era to maintain these minimums, and
ers. Another factor contributing to therefore we must have the co-opera
the break in prices during the month tion o f the producer himself to main
has been the influenza epidemic; It tain these results. It la a physical
has sharply curtailed consumption af Impossibility for the capacity o f the
pork products and temporarily de packing houses to handle a similar
creased the labor staff o f the packers over-flood o f hogs and to find a market
for the output. The packers are anx
about 25 per cent.
ious to co-operate with the producers
The exports o f 130,000,000 pounds In maintaining a stabilization o f price
• f pork products for October com and to see that producers receive a
pared with about 52,000,000 pounds fair price for their products.
in October a year ago, and the
(Signed) THOS. E. WILSON,
export ordfiTs placeable by the Food
Chairman Packers’ Committee.
Administration for November, amount
The plan embodied above was adopt
to 170.000,000 pounds as contrast
ed
with
the lesser export's o f ed by the conference.
The Food Administrator has appoint
•8,000,000 for November, 1917. The
Increased demands o f the allies are ed a committee, comprising Mr. Thom
continuing, and are In themselves as E. Wilson, chairman of the Pack
proof of the necessity for the large ers’ Committee; Mr. Everett Brown,
production for which the Food Admin president o f the Chicago Livestock Ex
istration asked. The Increase In ex change ; Major Roy o f thé Food Ad
port demands appears to be amply ministration, Mr. Louis D. Hall of the
sufficient to take up the Increase In Bureau o f Markets, to undertake the
hog productl >n, hut' unfavorable mar supervision o f the execution of the
ket conditions existing In October af plan In the various markets. Commis
ford no fair index o f the aggregate sion men are asked to co-operate In
carrying out the plan embodied In the
supply and demand.
packers’ agreement. It must he evi
It must be evident that the enor-
dent that offers by commission men to
moua shortage In fats In the Central
sell hogs below the minimum estab
Empires and neutral countries would
lished above is not fair, either to the
Immediately upon peace result In ad
producer or the participating packers.
ditional demands for pork products
Mr. Brown has undertaken on belmlf
which, <#i top o f the heavy shipments
o f the commission men in the United
to the Allies, would lend materially
States that they will loyally support
to Increase the American exports. In
the plan.
asmuch as no considerable reservoir of
It la believed hy the conference that
supplies exists outside of the United
Staten. It seems .probable that the this new plan, based as It is upon s
present prospective supplies would be (wyiltlve minimum basis, will bring I m M-
Inadequate to meet this world demand ter results to the producer than aver
with the return to peace. So far as it age prices for the month. It does not
la possible to inttrpret this fact. It ap limit top prices and should narrow
pears that there should he even a the margins necessary to country buy
stronger demand for pork products ers In more variable markets. It Is
after the war, and therefore any alarm believed that the plan should work out
o f hog product™ aa to the effect of ctoaa Ja $18 average.
Swine producers o f the country will
peace Is, unwarranted hy the outlook.
In tht< light o f these circumstances contribute to their own Interest by
It Is the conclusion of the conference not flooding the market, for It must be
that attempts to hold the price o f hogs evident tjmt If an excessive over per-
to the price o f corn may work out to rentage o f hogs Is marketed In any
the disadvantage of pork producers. one month price stabilization and enn-
It Is the conclusion that any Interpre trol cannot succeed, and It Is certain
tation o f the formula should be a that producers themselves ran contri
broad ganged policy applied over a bute materially to. the efforts of the
long period. It Is the opinion o f the conferences i f they will do their mark
conference that In aobstltutlon o f the eting In m normal a way aa possible.
previous plans of stabilization th<
The whole situation as existing at
Live Slock Subcommittee o f the \gri- present demsnds a frank and explicit
culttiral Advisory Board, together r-fih assurance from the conferees repre
the specially Invited swine representa sented— namely, that every possible
tives. should accept the Invttatb n of effort will be made to maintain a live
thè Food Administration to Join with hog price commensurate with swine
the Administration and the packers In production costs and reasonable sell
determining the prices at wlilch^con- ing values In execution a t the declin
trolled export orders are to be placed. ed policy o f the Food Administration
This will b* regularly done. The In to use every agency la Its control to
fluence of them orders wll’ he directed aeesre justice fffiffiie farmer.
The stabilization methods adopted
to the maintenance o f th« common ob
ject—namely, the ntahl’lxatlon o f the for November represent the best ef
ferie« of live hogs ao aa io secure as far fo rt« o f the conference, concurred In
aa It Is possible fab returns to the by the Food Adniinlatration and the
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W e hare built in new shelving, added new «bow case« and made it
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port, Ind. : St. Louis Ind. Packing Co., )
Livestock Subcommittee o f the Agri
SL Louis Mo.; Sinclair A Co., T. M I
cultural Advisory Board, together
Cedar Rapids, la. ; Sullivan k Co., De
with «p ed a l awln« member* and th«
troit, Mich. ; Theurer-Norton Provision
representatives o f th« packers, to Im
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Co., Cleveland, O. ; Wilson Provision
prove the present unsatisfactory situ
Co.. Peoria, 111. ; Western Packihg and
ation, which has unfortunately result
Provision Co., Chicago, III. ; Charles lira Stock C m rm sm m Merckaat
ed because o f the injection o f uncon
I W olff Packing Co., Topeka, Kan.
trollable factors 1
MR Stock a pedatty
Wa ask th« producer to co-operate
with us In a moat difficult task.
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The members o f th « Conference Graphic.
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E.
Producer»— H. C. Staart, Elk Gar
den, V s , Chairman Agricultural Ad
visory Board; W. M. McFadden, Chi
cago, III.; A. Sykes. Ida Grove, I s .;
John M. Ewmrd, Am es t o .; J. H. Mer
cer. Live Stack Commission for Kan
sas ; J. G. Brown, Monon, Ind.; E. C.
Brown. President Chicago Livestock
Exchange; N. H. Gentry. Sedalla, M s ;
Jqhn Grattan. Broomfield, Colo.; Eu
gene Funk. Bloomington, 111.; Isaac
Lincoln, Aberdeen, 8. D .; C. W. Hunt
Logan. Is.; C. E. Yancey, W. R. Dod
son.
Food Administration— Herbert Hoo
ver. F. 8. Snyder, Major E. L. Roy, G.
H. Powell.
Department o f 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 w ere:
Packers— Armour k Co., Chicago,
111.; Cudahy Packing Co.„Chlcago, III.;
Morris k Co., Chicago, 111.; Swift k
Co., Chicago. 111.; Wilson A Co., Chica
go, III.; John Agar Co.. Chicago, III.;
Armstrong Packing Co., Dallas. Tex.;
Boyd Dunham A Co., Chlcgfeo, III.;
Brennan Packingr Co., Chicago, 111.;
Cincinnati Abattoir Co.. Cincinnati,
O .; Cleveland Provisions Co., Cleve
land, O.; Cudahy Bros. Co., Cudahy,
W ls.; J. Dold Packing Co., Buffalo, N.
Y . ; Dunlevy Packing Co., Pittsburg-
P a .; J. E. Decker A Sons, Mason City,
l a . ; Evansville- Packing Co., Evans
ville, la d .; East Side Packing Co., East
St. Louis, 111.; Hammond Standlsh A
Co.. D etroit Mich.; G. A. Ilormel A
Co.. Austin, Minn.; Home Packing A
Ice Co., Terre Haute, 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.. Des Moines,
t o .; Powers Begg Co., Jacksonville,
Dt.; Klngan A Co., Indianapolis, Ind.;
Kray Packing Co., St. Louis, Md.; Lake
Erie Provision O«.. Cleveland, O .; I>ay-
ton Oo, Milwaukee. W ls.; Oscar Mayer
A Bro., Sedgwick and Beethoven
streets, Chicago, III.; J. T. McMillan
Co.; St. Paul, Minn.; Miller A Hart.
Chlckgo, m .; J. Morrell A Oo., Ottnm-
wa. I s .; Nuckolls Packing Co., Pueblo,
Colo.; Ogden Packing and Provision
Co.. Ogden. U tah; Ohio Provision Co..
Cleveland. O .; Parker W«bb A Co., De
tro it Mich.; Pittsburg Packing and
Provision Co.. Pittsburg, P a .; Rath
Packing On, Waterloo. la.; Roberts A
Oake. Chicago, III.; Roho A Brae.. Nee
York C i t y ; W. C. Itputli A Co., I- okmii »
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