Show soa 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart washington secretary wallaces plan for sending this little pig and that little pig and an old sow or two to market to market f has caused so many pigs to go to market that the distinguished secretary has had to issue a warning against shipping so many of them at this time the markets were nearly glutted in the first days of operation of the program under which the government is buying pigs and sows bows soon to farrow at premium prices secretary wallace certainly demonstrated that he be Is the nations champion hog caller especially when the inducement was cash in hand As soon as the department of agriculture decided that a reduction in the potential marketing of hogs during the coming year was advisable and made known that the government would buy pigs weighing between 25 and pounds and sows bows soon to farrow there was a rush for market despite the fact that the government Is prepared to buy pigs and sows bows at the premium prices approximately pigs and 1000 sows bows reached the main markets on the first day mr wallace watched the pigs go to market for a few days more and then tried to shoo them back a bit explaining that the farmers would have until around october I 1 in which to ship their pigs and obtain the premium prices by the end of september it Is figured by the experts the potential marketing of hogs during the coming year will have been reduced by about 2000 2000 pounds in this manner it Is claimed by sir mr wallace and those who s sponsored P the idea the first step will have been taken in establishing and maintaining a balance between the production and consumption of h ho 0 f products it Is their belief also that this cour course sewill will establish prices around the level that prevailed between 1010 and 1014 1914 while the potential marketing Is expected to be reduced by about 2000 pounds the actual live tonnage of the pigs and sows bows for which the government will pay a premium during the emergency period Is expected to approximate pounds the government has not bound itself to buy more than pigs and sows bows and so secretary wallace has suggested that farmers who plan to shop should get in touch with their county agent or some other authority and learn whether they can sell their stock before the little pigs are sent to market it night might be well to supply here the premium prices which are to be paid for those pigs and sows bows which will be purchased the secretary used the chicago market as a base and the prices which he fixed for that market therefore generally will run somewhat higher than the farmer will receive at interior points just as they would under normal marketing conditions the scale of prices per hundredweight for pigs Is as follows 2330 2530 23 25 30 pounds 31 35 pounds 30 40 pounds 9 41 45 pounds 75 46 50 pounds sl 51 55 pounds 56 GO 60 pounds SS 8 61 05 pounds GO CO 70 pounds 71 75 pounds 70 70 80 pounds sa 81 85 pounds SG SC 90 00 pounds 91 95 05 pounds and OG 90 pounds 6 for the sows bows talat are soon to farrow and the requirements are that this fact shall be unmistakable the government will pay a premium of four dollars per head but it will buy only those sows bows weighing pounds or more the farmers therefore will get the market price for packing sows bows on I 1 the day the shipment Is received in the market plus the premium of tour four dollars for each sow sold 0 0 0 the government Is trying as we said above to reduce the potential marketing of hogs bogs raise n price during the forth to result coming coia marketing season and it it believes e that in so doing several important benefits will accrue to the growers of hogs and they will accrue immediately the extent to which purchases are scheduled to be made will mean a reduction of from 12 to 16 per cent in the that are likely to tale take place otherwise in the marketing according to the calculation the experts who figured out ahat the reduction will mean also are authority for the calculation that the action will result in an increase in prices of hogs hog ms during the forthcoming season ranging from 25 to 35 per cent that Is the claim anyway I 1 so it Is seen that the department of agriculture expects to accomplish an increase in hog prices by 1 or aro over the present base price of about per hundred the first portion of the benefits to come from the plan Is in the form of the premium which we have discussed and the second Is in the form of higher prices for the remainder of the hog crop sir mr john Q consumer Is the one upon whom success of the enterprise depends mr wallace Is going to lay another processing tax on hogs that go into domestic consumption no such tax will be laid on hogs bogs killed for or export shipment the amount of the tax has not been definitely fixed but mr wallace holds that one half cent per pound of the live hogs win will provide sufficient funds it must be noted however that a tax of 0 one halt half cent per pound on the hoot grows to be much more per pound of edible ham tor for ham and eggs or in the pork chops that grace the table mr wallace says gays with emphasis that this emergency program will not be repeated ue ile plans to give consideration at once to a definite program of a permanent character that will effect a more substantial reduction in the number of BOWS that will farrow in the future a sort of a birth control idea at the same time and interlinked with the hog program he proposes to work out some arrangement that will reduce the acreage of corn it Is quite obvious to anyone that it if there was an artificial increase in hog prices there would be an expansion of hog production in another year so mr wallace Is going to try to defeat that through birth control of hogs and by causing aa an increase in the price of corn without passing on the merits of the scheme which mr wallace and his bis advisers have decrease in in worked out fur exports ther than thad to say he be Is being criticized vigorously in a good many quarters it must be remembered there has been a violent change in americas position with respect to its surplus hog products in recent years there has been almost annually a decrease in the export of pork and its products because the european countries hitherto our great market have been stepping up their hog production consistently since the world war more recently most of those countries have sought to protect themselves by establishing high tariffs or by limiting the imports from the united states through quotas meanwhile hog and corn production has gone on here at the old rate and we just have no place to send the surplus nog hog prices reflect the effect of excess supplies on the domestic market the products are highly perishable and must move into consumption quickly at whatever price they will bring there Is 19 therefore no doubt about the existence nor the serious character of the hog problem As every one knows much of the corn raisers success depends upon the extent to which corn Is fed to hogs this condition Is accentuated these days because not so many years ago about horses an and mules more than now exist were eating corn that corn has been diverted to hog feed students of the problem are saying therefore that it if there Is to be a satisfactory relationship between hog and corn production the corn acreage must be adjusted downward as the hog production shrinks otherwise the quantity of corn released from hog consumption would cause the price of corn to go to the bottom and the corn farmer would get it in the neck in that way it Is an extremely delicate balance that mr wallace Is seeking it never has been found in all history and a rail fence opinion is that mr wallace wont find it IL on the other hand there never has been in history a situation so complex as that through which we have been passing and supporters of the idea now being put into operation by the government contend it is the only way out since president roosebelt Roose jelt has been feeling his way in an effort to bring about recovery observers here seem to be agreed that little more harm can be done by trying out the birth control method for reducing hog production and an acreage reduction plan for reducing corn production 0 0 doubtless noon in washington is not greatly different than noon in a thousand other american cities or time ba ball 11 noon on the farm rut but there Is an institution associated with noon in washington that probably has rw no counterpart elsewhere where other cities have their factory whistles and bells washington has its time ball something more than halt a century ago some one conceived the idea of an official time signal under government auspices various methods of establishing lis liling such a signal were considered at length it was worked out and a staff wits was erected atop the east cast front of the great state department building and an arrangement perfected whereby a large gilded ball visible tor for several miles would be dropped from the top of this staff on the split second of noon the ball Is lifted into position by hand but the trigger that holds it Is released by an electrical electrIc nI impulse sent sen at the instant the naval observatory through its stargazing star gazing scientists decrees that noon has arrived for many years an electric wire ran direct from the observatory to the state building but somehow the govern government menlo forgot about its time hall ball and allowed a telegraph company to take over nd ad ministration of it it the telegraph company still sees bees to it that the impulse goes forward and trips the trigger so that all of washington who can set see the state building will know that it Is noon C 1113 1983 western newspaper union |