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Show ' Shipping Pigs In Baskets. Tho lot of domestic animals In the East is not enviable, particularly whon enduring transport from ono placo to anothor. Fowls aro always sent to market with tholr logs tiod, so that it Is lmposslblo for thorn to movo. Livo pigs aro transported In tho Straits Settlomonts by steamer or bargo, shipped singly in wicker work baskets Just largo enough to tako a slnglo pig. In this cramped and uncomfortable position, po-sition, for tho animal's logs aro tiod, making it nothing moro than a living log, it is ofton shipped long distancos, Water Is thrown over tbo animals and occasionally thoy nro allowed to drink, but nothing is given them to eat. Popular Scionco Monthly, |