Show Rough Handling Causes Heavy Losses of Swine The hog is subjected to its first danger of bruising when being loaded out of the feeding pen at the farm previous to being taken to market Very Yer often orten the pigs have not been out of the fattening pen for months and antI unless strict precaution Is exercised in loading out of th Ul thus i pen difficulties will occur Where the tle shipper loses his temper and the pigs are arc beaten and hammered the result Is that they are heated up and often oCten bruised before he- he fore they ther leave the station Bruises that occur before shipment are the most serious because sufficient time elapses before slaughter to allow such bruises to fester thus damaging n a portion of the surrounding tissue in addition to the bruised spot |