Show livestock e live Livest stock ocl situation jacc los log angeles july 18 rough handling ot of livestock to market is causing losses ot of millions of dollars to owners and to the livestock and meat packing industry in general according to reports compiled by national livestock loss prevention board many of 0 these losses could be avoided by more careful handling while stock Is being loaded in cars and in transit it Is believed actual losses suffered by livestock owners through death loss and apparent crippling of animals Is only a part of the total loss the survey reveals many bruises that are not apparent when livestock is unloaded at the slaughtering plant cut heavily into the carcasses aan often cause a reduction in the grado grade and quality of carcasses the survey shows that of 87 million animals shipped tor for commercial slaughter in 1933 more than died in transit and nearly ere crippled which means that at least two animals in every thousand received serious injuries ont including the additional thousands damaged through bruising the year 1933 was taken as the last typical year because in 1934 losses were abnormally high because 0 of the large number of drouth weakened animas injuries to hogs were the most frequent and those to cattle the least frequent one ot of the principal reasons given tor for losses is the practice of loading as many animals as possible into a train or truck where freight rates are based on a minimum weight many instances are cited where sheep smothered to death because of overloading in trucks while in other cases sheep and hogs were injured in and hogs were injured because in unloading trucks animals were permitted to jump to the ground lack of cleats an truck floors permits a certain amount of sliding which causes injuries tho the national livestock loss prevention board was organized last december in the interests of stockmen stoc kmen railroads insurance companies packers stock yard companies and others involved in the transportation of live stock the writer Is a director rep ies resenting enting the pacific coast in the work that Is being done by the board to help cut down unnecessary losses in fit transporting livestock |