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APPENDIX 



Stabilizing Supplies and Prices. A report of the Conference held in 

 Chicago, March 10th and llth, 1919, between representatives of the Kansas 

 Live Stock Association, The Corn Belt Meat Producers Association, Missouri 

 Live Stock Breeders Association, Illinois Live Stock Association, Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association, The Buyers and Sellers Association of Texas, and repre- 

 sentatives of seventeen packing companies. 



Proposed Agreement for the "Conference Committee" of the Live Stock Industry. 

 At a conference held in Chicago on March 10 and 11, 1919, the representatives of the Kansas 

 Live Stock Association, Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association, Missouri Live Stock Associ- 

 ation, Illinois Live Stock Association, and The Buyers' and Sellers' Association of Texas met 

 with the five large packers and eleven other packers. 



It is the sense of those participating in the conference that it would be to the mutual 

 benefit of the live-stock industry, the packers, and the consumer, that steps should be taken 

 to bring about a closer cooperation between the various interests concerned. 



Realizing that the live-stock industry is on the threshold of an era of reconstruction, 

 and with the prospect of removal of such control as has been exercised by the Food Admin- 

 istration during the war period, we are impressed with the importance of reaching a better 

 understanding of the problems affecting the whole industry, and of effecting, if possible, 

 more economic methods of production and distribution to the end that our businesses may 

 be placed on a sounder basis, and in order that the finished product be furnished the con- 

 sumer at a minimum price compatible with cost of production. 



It is suggested that these ends may be obtained through the formation of a central 

 committee composed of producers and representatives of the packing industry, the Bureau 

 of Markets, and the National Live Stock Exchange, which should meet in Chicago once a 

 month, or oftener, if necessary, for the purpose of taking such measures as may tend toward 

 the stabilization of live stock receipts at various markets, and for the further purpose of 

 studying one another's problems, of adjusting grievances, and of inaugurating such systems 

 as will be helpful to the producer, the packer, and the consumer. The greatest possible 

 publicity should be given to all of the proceedings. It is understood that if this proposal 

 becomes effective it shall not be construed as in any way restraining the activities of the 

 parties hereto in working for or against the passage of pending or future federal legislation 

 for the regulation of the packing and allied industries. Its purpose is wholly constructive, 

 looking to a better understanding and fuller cooperation between all interests involved. 



It is obviously to the best interests of all concerned that receipts of live stock at all 

 markets should be stabilized and distributed as evenly as possible in order that a five-day 

 market may be established for all classes of live stock, and to this end it shall be distinctly 

 the function of the committee to make effective such measures as may be possible for the 

 accomplishment of this object. 



It is contemplated that the producer shall obtain and furnish the committee all import- 

 ant information concerning the supply of meat animals in the various sections of the country. 

 Shall advise the committee regarding feed conditions, and the amount of live stock which 

 shall be ready for market during the various seasons, and in other ways be a source from 

 which valuable information, including cost of production, may be> placed at the disposal 

 of the committee. 



It is contemplated that the packers shall prepare and submit to the committee informa- 

 tion relative to the amount of finished product on hand, the foreign and home demands for 

 meat products, together with the cost of live animals and the expense of slaughter, packing, 

 and distribution of the finished products. The packers shall recommend any plans which 

 tend to reduce their expense of operation, such as the equalization of receipts, etc. 



