Show WASTE IN HOLDING HOGS IN LOCAL PENS practice of purchasing animals animal in small lots and keeping in yards Is wasteful prepared by the united states department of agriculture Aerl culture A loss of live weight of hogs and wa wate waste te of feed result from the practice of purchasing local hogs in small lots iota and holding them in local stockyards stock yards until a carload shipment Is collected according to specialists of tile the united states bureau of markets they point out that at this and other seasons when runs are light it often takes local buyers four or five days to assemble enough small lots for n carload As facilities for teed feed and watering tire are inferior in small yards the hogs mako make no further gains ou on their feed and often suffer actual lo loss as of live weight local buyers therefore would do well to specify a certain day for the delivery of 0 lots from the various farms mid and load and ship without holding farmers also could club together to mako make up tip operative cooperative co carload shipments on regular beek cek days thus saving the margin lost in individual swall small lot selling |