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Show Care Urged in Shipping Livestock in Summer "Losses of livestock shipped In hot weather have been enormous," says Dr. C P. Fitch, chief of the division divi-sion of veterinary medicine, Minnesota Minne-sota agricultural experiment station, sta-tion, "and they are still very much greater than they should be." Here are some suggestions for shippers, recently issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, which have the approval of veterinary authorities. au-thorities. 'Never drive fat hogs or sheep fast, and never beat or excite them. 5 Haul heavy hogs to market even In , cool weather. Drive fat cattle slow-k slow-k ly. Load animals with the least pos- sible maneuvering or excitement. Throwing cold water on the backs $j of overheated hogs is bad business. It is always good practice to bed shipping cars for hogs with sand, " and then hang a few bags of ice In each car. It Is a good plan to reduce rations ra-tions considerably for 24 hours before be-fore shipping time. Take no chances and there will be little to worry about, ivk . |