Show 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart wash washington ington secretary wallaces plan for sending this little pig and that little pig and an old sow or two to market to market has caused so many pigs PIA to go to market that the distinguished secretary has had to issue a warning against shipping so many of them at one time the markets wore were nearly glutted in the first few 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 Is the nations champion bog caller especially when the inducement was cash in hand As soon as the department of agriculture ri 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 BOO to farrow there was a rush for market despite the tact fact that the government Is prepared to buy pigs and sows bows at the premium prices approximately irately 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 october I 1 in bich 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 corning coming year will have been reduced by about pounds in this manner it Is claimed by mr wallace and those who sponsored the idea the first step will have been taken in establishing and maintaining a balance between production and consumption of hog products it Is their belief also that this course will establish prices around the level that prevailed between and 1914 while the potential marketing Is expected to be reduced by about 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 1000 aw sows bows and so secretary wallace has suggested that farmers who plon plan to slop 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 might be well nell 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 chich 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 2530 25 30 pounds 31 35 pounds 36 40 pounds 9 41 45 pounds ag 50 pounds 51 55 pounds 50 GO 00 pounds S 8 01 85 pounds GG 70 pou pounds 1 it 71 75 pounds 8 SO 0 pounds sa 7 81 85 pounds 1375 ag 90 pounds 91 95 05 pounds and ag I 1 pounds G bows sows for the bows sows that are soon to farrow and the requirements are that this fact shall be unmistakable the government will pay a premium of 4 per head but it will buy only those sows bows weighing ing pounds or more the government Is trying as we said above to reduce the potential marketing of hogs raise n price during the forth to result corning cornice marketing season and it believes that in so doing several important benefits will accrue to the growers of hogs and they will accrue immediately the extent to purchases are arc scheduled to be made will mean a reduction of from 12 to 10 per ceta cent in the that are likely to take place otherwise in the 1933 1934 marketing season according to the calculation the experts who out what the redi tion lon will mean also are authority for the calculation that the action will result in an increase in prices of hogs during the forthcoming season ranging from 25 23 to 30 per cent this Is the claim anyway so it Is seen that the department of agriculture expects to accomplish com an increase in hog bog prices b by y 1 or oer the present base price of about per hundred the first portion of the benefits to come from the plin plan Is in the form foral of the premium which we have discussed find and the second is in the form of higher prices for the remainder of the hog crop mr john Q COD consumer SUmer Is 13 the onu one upon whom success of the enterprise depe depends mr wallace Is going to lay another pro processing bessing tax on hog liggs gs that go co into consumption no such tax las will be laid on hogs killed for export shipment the amount of the tax has not been definitely fixed but mr air wallace holds that one half cent per pound of the live hogs hoge will provide sufficient funds it oust must be noted however that a tax on one half cent per pound on the hoot hoof grows to be much more per pound on edible ham for ham and eggs or in the pork chops that grace the table mr wallace says 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 sows bows that will farrow in the future a sort of a birth control idea at the same time and interlinked linked with the hog program ho 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 bogs and by causing an increase in the price of corn without passing on the merits of this scheme which mr air wallace and his big advisers have decrease in worked out fur exports their than to say he 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 cansis consistently bently since t the b e world war more recently most of those countries have sought to protect themselves by establishing high tariffs or limiting the imports from the united states through quotas As every one knows much of the corn raisers ral sers success depends upon the extent to which corn is fed to hos hogs this condition is accentuated ate d these days because not so many years ago about horses and mules more than now exist were eating corn that corn has been diverted to hog feed students of the problem are saying sayin therefore that if there is to be a satisfactory relationship between hog and corn production the corn acreage must be adjusted downward as the log hog production shrinks Other otherwise mise the quantity of corn released from hog 1109 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 has neier neer been found in all history lind and a rail fence felace opinion is that mr wallace wont find it on the other hand there never has been in history a situation so complex as that through which we have been passing in and supporters of the idea now b eing being put into operation by the government contend it Is the only way out since president roosevelt 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 4 doubtless noon in washington is not greatly different than noon in a thousand other american cities citie sor or time ball mw doon on the farm but there is an institution associated with noon in washington that probably has no counterpart elsewhere where other cities have their factory whistles and bells washington lias 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 such a signal were considered at length it was worked out and a staff was erected atop atoll the east front of the groat great state department building and an arrangement perfected whereby a large gilded ball visible for several miles would be dropped from the top of this staff on the split second of noon the hall ball Is lifted into position by hand but the trigger that holds it is released by an electrical impulse sent at the instant the naval observatory atory through its stargazing star gazing scientists decrees th that at noon has arrived for many years an electric wire ran directly from the observe tory to the state building but some how the government forgot about its time ball and allowed a tele graph company to take over administration of it the telegraph corn com pany still sees to it that the im pulse goes forward ant and trips the trigger so that all washington who con sic se tite the state building will know that it Is noon 45 1933 western newspaper union |