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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
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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. OREGON
FINE MONUMENT AND CEMETERY W0RS
All parties interested in getting work in my line
should get my prices and estimates before
placing their orders
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
Ike always
- thought
a man was foolish to buy
plug of the Gravely class
when he could get a big
plug of ordinary tobacco
for the same money. But
one day BiJI gave him a
chew of Gravely just two
or three small squares.
Then Ike. gt the pure, sat
isfying Gravely taste. It
lasted so long, you can't
tell him nowadays that it
costs him anything extra
to chew Real Gravely.
' r fnrthtrtket't why yrrm
can gel fit food tattt tf this claa
tohacn without extra nst
PEYTON BRAND
Real Gravely Chewing Plug
Bill's Island Refuge Under Guns
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The world has been "fed tip" fJn Bill Hohcnzollern, ex-kaiser of.
Germany, and wants to forget.the archmurderer as soon as possible.
Nevertheless Bill's doings will be a point of Interest for some time 'to'
come until justice and punishment overtake him. Here is the spot'
Bill had in mind if ever his fateful day to abaicate came and 1st
now here. It is his $5,000,000 palace, built on the Island of Corfuf
by Empress Elizabeth of Autttria. But Bill may not get thore. Thel
scene below shows the harbor of Corfu, with British ana French)
warships guarding the entrance. The Island is pff the coast or Oreec,1
In the Ionian group,. '
The Gazette-Times now $2.00. Have yon Paid Dp?
All delinquents will have to be dropped after Nov.
1st. you will not miss your paper by paying now.'
Mflotlace FIqvc I Observe them by Eating
The People's Cash Market
In cooperating with the food administration by encouraging the i
of fish and poultry as substitutes for the other meats which vrc want
to save.
FRESH OYSTERS, CLAMS, CRABS, FISH '
Mr Hoover says: "Eat more fish." ' The best will be found here.
Phone Main, 73 HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor
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