•, I. A. A. RECORD— September, 1933 



feed, thus giving to the farmers en- 

 gaged actively in the hog producing 

 and feeding industry very substantial 

 benefits. 



In making these recommendations, 

 the committee stated that it is fully 

 aware of their temporary character 

 and they are being made only to meet 

 the present emergency. "They will 

 be followed, not later than Oct. 1, by 

 recommendations of a much more 

 permanent and, we believe, effective 

 character with the one purpose |n 

 mind of getting com and hogs into a 

 parity price relationship, and keeping 

 them on such a basis," says Mr. Smith. 



Mr. Smith explained to the confer- 

 ence that the present potential sup- 

 plies of pork were more serious than 

 indicated in the official report of the 

 committee. In addition to the seven 

 per cent increase in pigs farrowed and 

 to be farrowed in 1933 over and above 

 that of 1932, and the decrease in ex- 

 ports the past year of around 500,- 

 000,000 pounds, he asserted that the 

 present stocks of processors amounted 

 to approximately 1,000,000,000 pounds 

 which is far in excess of normal 

 stocks for this time of year. In- 

 formed students of the subject, he said, 

 agree that unless drastic measures 

 are adopted immediately to curtail 

 production, hog prices in the next few 

 months will fall substantially below 

 present low levels. 



He also set forth clearly that the 

 suggestions and recommendations of 

 the committee in no way implied de- 

 stroying the meat from the better 

 class of pigs and sows marketed under 

 the proposed plan. 



The committee has been assured, he 

 declared, that those in charge of the 

 disposition of national relief funds 

 could arrange to take all such meat 

 on a moderate price basis and place 

 it in channels that would insure its 

 consumption by the millions of desti- 

 tute people in America without in any 

 way decreasing the present purchases 

 of meat for that purpose. 



It was most definitely indicated that 

 if farmers of the com and hog belt 

 give their immediate and whole- 

 hearted support in putting into effect 

 this emergency program there can be 

 but one result, namely, that farmers 

 who now own pigs and brood sows in 

 drought and insect stricken areas will 

 receive substantial benefits by mar- 

 keting their sows and pigs and that 

 farmers living in more favored areas 

 who desire to continue their feeding 

 operations on a lighter weight basis 

 than during the past year may expect 

 a substantial increase in the price of 

 hogs. Millions of destitute people 

 now receiving little or no meat also 

 would be benefited under the pro- 



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visions recommended by the com- 

 mittee. 



The suggested program does not 

 call for a processing tax in the im- 

 mediate future. Later a processing 

 tax would be levied to provide the 

 necessary revenue to balance all costs 

 of the operation over and above m,ar- 

 ket values received. The processing 

 tax necessary to accomplish the in- 

 tended purpose will be very nominal 

 when compared with the results to be 

 obtained in raising hog prices. 



Around. 250 representatives of pro- 

 ducers and farm organizations, pack- 

 ers, local butchers and retailers, live- 

 stock commission merchants, and live- 

 stock exchanges attended the meeting 

 at the Willard Hotel in Washington 

 on Aug. 10. 



Not a single proposal was offered 

 at the close of the conference other 

 than that of the National Corn and 

 Hog Committee, and the meeting went 

 on record in favor of the committee's 

 report with only one dissenting vote, 

 that of a representative of eastern re- 

 tail butchers. 



The Adjustment Administration 

 was urged to put the emergency pro- 

 gram into effect at the earliest possi- 

 ble date because of the acuteness of 

 the situation. 



The conference unanimously adop- 

 ted a resolution offered by Presi- 

 dent Smith to the effect that every 

 proper official of government, par- 

 ticularly the Secretary of Agriculture 

 and the administrators of the Adjust- 

 ment Act, put forth every effort to 

 dispose of pork and pork products in 

 the export markets of the world. 



The official report of the National 

 Committee submitted by Mr. Smith, 

 the chairman, was also signed by 

 Edward A. O'Neal, president of the 

 A. F. B. F., C. V. Gregory, editor of 

 Prairie Farmer, and Ralph Moyer and 

 Roswell Garst of Iowa. 



Pledges of support for the program 

 were voiced by S. S. McCloskey of the 

 National Grange, E. E. Kennedy, 

 Farmer's Union, Chas. E. Hearst, 



Iowa Farm Bureau Fed., A. Sykes of 

 Iowa, Corn Belt Meat Producers 

 Ass'n., A. H. Baker, Missouri, for the 

 National Livestock Exchange, C. B. 

 Crandall, So. St. Paul, for the Central 

 Co-op. Livestock Commission Ass'n., 

 Thos. E. Wilson, Chicago, prominent 

 packer representing the American 

 Meat Packers Institute, J. H. Mercer, 

 Kansas Livestock Ass'n., Chas. A. 

 Ewing, pres. National Livestock Mar- 

 keting Ass'n., Geo. R. Collett, Ameri- 

 can Stockyards Ass'n., Kansas City, 

 John B. Gage, U. S. Livestock Ass'n. 

 Milo Reno of the National Farmers 

 Holiday Ass'n., pledged the support 

 of his organization to "any emergency 

 program which will give production 

 costs to the farmer." 



See Your Friends, State 



Fair Friday, Aug. 25th 



Preparations Complete For a Big 

 Farm Bureau Day. Quincy 

 i Band To Play c 



AS WE go to press preparations •. 

 are being completed for Farm 

 Bureau Day at the Illinois 

 State Fair, Friday, Aug. 25. The I.' 

 A. A. tent will be erected in approxi- 

 mately the same location as last year, 

 south and a little west of the farm 

 machinery exhibits. It will be ready 

 for visitors by Saturday, Aug. 19, the ' 

 opening day of the fair. 



The tent will have plenty of chairs,- 

 a rest room for women and children, •. 

 a check room, and drinking water. 



The coliseum on, the Fair Grounds 

 has been secured for the personality 

 contest sponsored by the I. A. A. and . 

 County Farm Bureaus. Fifty-four 

 young women representing as many • 

 counties — all winners of county con- 

 tests — ^will compete for the cash prizes ' 

 and the honor of being crowned Coun- 

 try Life Queen of Illinois. Pictures of 

 the girls will be found on pages 14-15. • 



V. Vaniman announces that the 

 Quincy High School band will play be- 

 fore and after the contest. Earl Smith, 

 president of the I. A. A., will open the 

 program in the coliseum with a short 

 address at 10:30 A. M. Mrs. Chas. 

 Sewell of the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation will deliver the principal 

 address. 



The Farm Bureau headquarters tent 

 will display a series of decorated Illi- 

 nois maps and charts illustrating the 

 many services and accomplishments ' 

 of the I. A. A., County Farm Bureaus, 

 and Associated Companies. 



Members are invited to come and 

 bring their friends, both to their head- . 

 quarters tent and to the beauty contest • 

 in the coliseum. 



