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Tests of a Sprinkler System for Hot-Weather Hauling of Live Hogs in Truck-Trailers

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  • Guilfoy, Robert F., Jr.

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Excerpts from the report Summary: In an effort to reduce death losses and in-transit shrinkage of hogs during hot weather, a hog marketing company in Smithfield, N. C, in 1955 installed a simple and inexpensive water sprinkler cooling system in its truck-trailers used to haul live hogs. The system was made of 1/2-inch galvanized pipe, standard pipe fittings, and a length of garden hose. It cost, installed, about $75 per trailer. To determine whether and to what extent this system was effective, the Agricultural Marketing Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, conducted a series of tests during the summer of 1956. Sixteen tests were made in July, August, and September 1956 on trailer shipments between Smithfield, N. C, and Baltimore, Md. Two trailers traveled together in each test trip. The hogs in one trailer were not sprinkled, while the hogs in the other trailer were sprinkled for 21 minutes before departure from the shipping point and 4 times en route for periods of 10 minutes each.

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  • Guilfoy, Robert F., Jr., 1957. "Tests of a Sprinkler System for Hot-Weather Hauling of Live Hogs in Truck-Trailers," Marketing Research Reports 310480, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uamsmr:310480
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310480
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