Show WASTE IN HOLDING HOGS IN LOCAL PENS practice of purchasing animals in small lots and keeping in yards Is was wasteful reful prepared by the united states department of AgLI agriculture culture A loss of live weight of hogs and waste of feed result from the alie practice of purchasing pui put chasing local hogs iti in small lots and holding them in local stockyards stock yards until it carload shipment is collected according to specialists of the united states bureau of markets they point out that tit at this and other seasons when nn runs ire are light it often takes local buyers four or fic fhe days to assemble enough small lots for a carload As facilities for feed and watering are inferior in small aids the hogs make no further gains on their feed and often sulter suffer actual loss of live weight local buyers therefore would do well 0 to o specify a certain day for the delivery lei iv of lots from the various farms ant load and still chip without holding farmers alo could club together to mako up operative cooperative co carload shipments on regular week lays days thus saving tl alie I 1 e margin lost in individual small lot selling |