Show SHIPPING SWINE IN SUMMER L hot weather precautions to prevent loss of important part of nations meat supply prepared by the united un cited stat states department of agriculture every hog that is killed in n transit due to overcrowding or mishandling mi means a loss at present prices of probably more than 1 30 to the shipper as well as a waste of meat needed by the nation mortality in transit or after arrival at the central market can be lessoned lessened greatly in hot weather by the practice tice of the following simple precautions on the part of shippers and dealers 1 when hogs are very lot during or after a drive never pour cold water over their backs 2 before loading clean out each car and bed it with sand which during dry hot weather should be wetted down thoroughly hogs in transit during the night only are arc not so likely to be lost from overheating qs as nie aie the animals shipped in the daytime with day shipments in hot weather it Is highly advisable to suspend burlap sacks of lee ice from the ceiling in various parts of the 11 r 4 ll 1 I y wW yv wal t t delit t i C i J 11 r t j q f ht sf hsi w 4 t hogs at end of their journey to market do not run risks by overcrowding during any part of this trip car in order to reduce tile temperature and I 1 incidentally illy to sprinkle the animals with cool water the lee ice sometimes is placed in sacks on tile the floor but tile the animals are likely to pile and crowd around tile the cakes so that only alose close ebule to the ice uie tile benefited tile the lee ice should hould s bo be sufficient to lust last to the destination 3 do not overload crowding hogs in a car during warm warin weather is a prolific source of mortality 4 the feeding of corn because or of its li heating cating before and luring during in hot weather veather should be reduced to a minli minimum nuin oats are preferable where a gra grain in feed is iq necessary the maximum maintenance requirement of hogs hog in transit for 21 hours is one pound of grain a hund i ed weight or approximately three bushels of corn to a car 11 in tile the past thousands of bushels of corn have lave been wasted in livestock live stock cars |