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MARKET CLASSES OF HOGS. 



shipper should aim to have as little shrinkage as possible and the following 

 suggestions are offered on shipping to the best advantage. 



Hogs ship better and fill better at the end of their destination if they are 

 not fed just prior to being loaded. If they can be fed 12 hours after being 

 on the road in the car at some stopping point, it will be profitable to the 

 shipper to feed them. It is customary to feed and water as soon as they 

 arrive at their destination and are unloaded. 



Cars should be thoroughly cleaned and well bedded. A layer of clean 

 straw covered with sand makes a turfrlike bed on which hogs will lie down 

 and ride comfortably and come out of at the market in a clean, strong condi- 

 tion that makes them sell well. Hogs that are uneasy and restless during 

 shipment always shrink badly. The condition of the hogs upon arriving at 

 the market makes more difference in the price received, than the commission 

 firm which sells them and which is criticised not infrequently for not securing 



