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Newspaper Page TextPAliK SEX TUB GAZKTTE-TLMK8. HKFFKKK. OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1918. 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 luvonlmioe with tlie policy of the Food Administration since its founda tion so consult n'pivsontutive men in the agricultural industry on occasions of Iniportuuce to s;Hcial brant-hes of the Industry, on October 24 there was Convened in Washington a meeting of the Live Stock Subcommittee of the Agricultural Advisory Board and the sjcial members representing the swine Industry to consider the situation in the hog market. ' , 'I'll coiilVremv liisteil tor three days, and during this tttne met with the executive committee of the tii'ty parking lirnis participating In foreign orders for ; . Ik pnniu-is and with the members of the Food Administration directing foii':'n iork purchases. The coin K:s; : s of tne conference were as follows: Hie entire n.ai ketitii; situation husi producer ami the Insurance of an ade 80 chai.gcd since the September joint J quale future supply, con Terence as to necessitate an entire! These ' foreign orders nre placed alteration in the plans of (trice stahi-j up"n tlle bllsis of cost of ho-s to the list i ion. 'The current pence talk has ilanit-tl the holders of corn, and there hits been a price decline of from 25 cents to 40 ceuts per bushel. The fact that 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 has cre ated a great deal of apprehension on the part of corn holders. This decline has spread fear among swine growers that n similar reduction iu the prices of hogs would naturally follow. More over, the lower range of corn prices would, if incorporated in a l3-to-1 ra tio, obviously result In a continuously falling price for live hogs. In view of these changed conditions many wine producers anticipated lower prices and as a result rushed their hogs to market In large numbers, and this overshipment has added to and aggravated the decline. The information of the Department of Agriculture indicates that the sup ply of bogs 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 Inst month. On the other hand, many of the packers have puld over the price offered to them in an endeavor to maintain the agreed price. The re ult in any event has been a failure to maintain the October price basis determined upon at the September con terence and undertaken by the pack ers. Another factor contributing to the break; in prices during the month has bevQ 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 a year ago, and the export orders plnceahle by the Food Administration for November, amount to 170.000.000 pounds as ' contrast ed with the lesser exports of 98,000.000 for November, 1917. The Increased demands of the allies are continuing, and are in themselves proof of the necessity for the large i r ...I,;.., I?rr.,l Ailmln. JjrtJUUi IIOIJ IOI "iio-ii ut -y-M, ......,., lstration asked. The Increase in ex port demands appears to be amply sufficient to ti;lre up. the increase iu hog product! .it, but unfavorable mar ket conditions existing in October af ford no fair lndx of the aggregate supply and demand. ,It must be evident that the enor jinne shortage In fats In thfi Central Empires t'.nil neutral count rl would Immediately upon peace result in ad ditional demands for pork products which, : lop of the heavy shipments to the Allies, would tend materially to Increase the American Exports In asmuch as no cons'deralile reservoir tf supplies exists ou'slnV of the United States. It seems probable that the present irrespective supplies would be Inadequate to meet this world demand with the return to pence. 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 ns to the effect of peace i 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 cultural Advisory Hoard, together with the specially Invited swine representa tives, should accept the Invitation of the Fod Administration to Join with the Administration and the packers In determining the prices at which eon trolled export orders ure to be placed. This will be regularly done. The in fluence of these orders will be directed to the maintenance of the common ob ject namely, the stabilization of the price of live hogs so as to secure as far am If In nncullile fn!r returns to the .packers. As the result of long negotiations between this body aud the Puckers' Committee, representing the 45 to 50 packers participating in foreisrn or- ders, together with the Allied buyers, all under the Chairmanship of" the Food Administration, the following tm- uei uiKiug nas oeen given by the pack- t'l s In view of the undertakings on the part or the Food Administration with regard to the co-ordinated purchases or pork products, covered in the at tached, it is agreed that the packers participating in these orders win un dertake not to purchase hogs for less than the following agreed rainiiuums for the 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 denned as pigs under 130 pounds, stags, boars, thin sows and skips. Further that no hogs of any kind shall be bought, except throw- outs, at less than $10.50 per hundred pounds. The average of packers' droves to be construed as the average of the total sales In the market of all hogs for a given day. All the above to be based on Chicago. We agree that a committee shall be appointed by the Food Administration to check the dally operations In the various markets with a view to super vision and demonstration of the' carry ing out of the rfbove. 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 last 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 minimum's, aud therefore we must have the co-operation 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 fiud a market for the output. The packers are anx ious to co-opernte with the producers In maintaining a stabilization of price and to see tJhat 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 a committee, comprising Sir. Thom as E. Wilson, chairman of the Pack ers' Committee ; Mr. Everett P.rowti, president of the Chicago Livestock Ex change; Major Hoy of the Food Ad ministration, Mr. Louis F. Hall of the liureau of Markets, to undertake the supervision of the execution of the plau in the various markets. Commis sion men are asked to co-operate in carrying out the plan embodied in the packers' agreement. It must be evi dent that offers by commission men to sell hogs below the minimum estate lished above Is not fair, either to the producer or he participating puckers. Mr. Urown has undertaken on behalf of the 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 aver age prices for the month. It does not limit top prices 4t)d should narrow lite margins necessary to country buy ers in more varln'e markets. It is believed that the i-un should work out close to $18 average. Swine producers of the conn try will contribute to their own interest by not flooding the market, for it must be evident that if an excessive over per centage of hogs Is marketed In any one month price stabilization anil con trol cffitnot 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 a way as possible The whole situation as 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 swine production costs and reasonable sell 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 1 by . the Food Administration and the Uv4tck Subcommittee of the Agri- cultural Advisory Hoard, toge.her ' 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: Producers H. C. Stuart, Elk C.nr den, Va.. Chairman Agricultural Ad visory Board; W. M. McFaddon. Chi CHgo, III.; A. Sykes. Ida Grove, la.; John M. Evvard, Ames, la.; J. H. Mer. eer. Live Stock Commission for Kan sas; J. G. Brown, Motion, Ind. : E. C. Brown. President Chiotu-o Livestock Exchange; N. H. Gentry. Sedalia, Mo.; John (rattan, Broomtield, Colo.: Eu gene Funk. Bliiomingtott, III.; Isaac Lincoln, Aberdeen, S. D. ; C. W. Hunt, Ugan,- la.; C. 11 Yancey, W. R. Pod son. Food .Administration Herbert Hoo ver. F. S. Snyder, .Major E. L. liov, ti. H. Powell. Department of Agriculture Louis D. Hall, F. It. Marshall. The packers present and others sharing in foreign orders were repre sented by the elected packers' commit tee. Those represented were : Puckers Armour & Co., Chicago, III. ; Cudahy Packing Co.. Chicago, 111. ; Morris & Co.. Chicago, 111.; Swift & Co., Chicago, III.; Wilson & Co., Chica go, 111.; John Agar Co., Chicago, III.; Armstrong Packing Co.. Dallas, Tex.; Boyd Dunham & Co., Chicago, 111.; Brennan Packing Co., Chicago, III.; Cincinnati Abattoir Co., Cincinnati, O. ; Cleveland Provisions Co.. Cleve- Mand, O.; Cudahy Bros. Co., Cudahy. Wis. ; J. Dold Packing Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.; Dunlevy Packing Co., Pittsburg. Pa. ; J. E. Decker & Sons, Mason City, la.; Evansville Packing Cov Evans ville, Ind. ; East Side Packing Co.. East St. Louis, III.; Hammond Standish & Co., Detroit, Mich.; G. A." Hormel & Co., Austin, Minn.; Home Packing & Ice Co., Terre Haute, Ind.; Independ ent Packing Co., Chicago, 111. ; Indinn apolis Abattoir Co., Indianapolis, Ind.; International Provision Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Interstate Packing Co., Winona, Minn.; Iowa Packing Co., Des Moines, la.; Powers Begg Co., Jacksonville, 111.; KIngan & Co., Indianapolis, Ind.; Krey Packing Co., St Louis, Mo. ; Lake Erie Provision Co., Cleveland, O. ; Lay ton Co., Milwaukee, Wis. ; Oscar Mayer 4 Bro., Sedgwick and Beethoven streets, Chicago, 111.; J. T. McMillan Co.; St. Paul, Minn.; Miller & Hart, Chicago, 111. ; J. Morrell & Co., Ottum wa, la. ; Nuckolls Packing Co., Pueblo, Colo.; Ogden Parking and Provision Co., Ogden, Utah ; Ohio Provision Co., Cleveland, O. ; Parker Webb & Co., De troit, Mich.; Pittsburg Packing and Provision Co., Pittsburg, Pa.; Rath Packing Co., Waterloo, la.; Roberts & Oake, Chicago, III.; Rohe & Bros., New York City ;. C. Routli & Co., Logans port, Ind. ; St. Louis Ind. Packing Co., St Louis, Mo.; Sinclair & Co., T. M. Cedar Rapids, la.; Sullivan & Co., De-, troit, Mich. ; Theurer-Norton Provision Co., Cleveland, O. ; Wilson Provision Co., Peoria, III. ; Western Packing and Provision Co., Chicago. III.; Chitries Wolff Packing Co., Topeka, Kan. Cheered Him I'p. Caller I sent you a poem about three weeks ago. What have you J done with it? ' Editor I'm holding it. Every little while lately I get to thinking that we are not getting out as good a paper as we ought, and then I take that poem and see how much worse the sheet might be, and that .makes me cheerful again. Say, how mucli'11 you take for it? MANY PEOPLE VISITED EAGLE CUEEK DURING 1918. Seventeen thousand, four hundred iifty-seven visitors registered at tiagle Creek Camp Grounds, on ths Oregon National Fortst, between April 15 and November 15, -1918, according to a report received by forest Supervisor T. H. Sherrard vYorn. hanger Wieaeudauger. this is about four hundred less than regis tered during the summtr of 1917. iSince about one visitor iu five regis ters, the total attendance at the cauip-grounds for tae past season a as about eighty-fie thousand. ' Every state in the union was rep .esented among' tne visitors regis--eted dur.ng the season. Peopie a.so t-egiste.ed from eignt prouuee of v auuiia, irom .uoxico, and nine other m.eigu cuuiuiies. 'lue. Suuuay ..iriiii preceding Labor Jay three hundred cars were parked .ho iauip iiuUiius over kiiK, aud jusl utter Uuv-n uu L.uoor iuy six uuiUied iii'teeu ca;s were equated iu -i.e tiifK. iiie crowd uu the. grounds u.i niis uuie kas esuuiaied at thirty live hundred. The extensive use of these grounds by tne public made it neces sary to open up uew camping sites on the west side of kagie Creek, and oiie-hait rune of now traii was con structed leading to these sites. vValer bus atso been piped to this oide of the creek. During the present season a ranger station in keeping with the ourrouudiugs has been constructed on .he camp grounds from piaus donated by Architect A. E. Doyle, of Portland. The panting place and ;oop road have been macadamized, and sixteen new cwnp stoves con structed at convenient camping pots. There were no serious acci dents reported as having occurred in the park or along the Eagle Creek trail. All the picnic tables used on the grounds have been taken town and placed In the storehouse for winter. None of them had been defaced or injured more than by natnral wear and tear, in spite of the almost con stant use they received during the ;eason. The Forest Service plans to add fifty new tables to the equip ment next year. The public has furnished splen did cooperation during the present .season, both In keeping campsites .dean .and putting out campfires be fore leaving. During tho season, sixteen parties were requested by the ranger In charge to come back and clean up their campsites and put out the fires which they had left. The last month a gasoline drag jaw has been iu use cutting up a large number of dead snags on the camp-grounds to provide firewood for the use of campers next year. This wood was placed at convenient intervals whore it Is readily accessible from the various campsites on the grounds. During the huckleberry season many of the visitors at Eagle Creek Camp Grounds climbed the Wauna Point trail, which leaves the Colum bia River Highway near Eagle Creek, fer the purpose of gathering berries. The register kept at the head of Wauna Point trail shows that over one hundred eighty-five camp, crs climbed to the point. L. MONTERESTELL! MARBLE AND GRANITE' WORKS PENDLETON. 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