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Cool Shower Bath Good for Pigs

Publication date

January 1956

Language

English

Abstract

This is a short paragraph concerning experiments which demonstrated that 500 growing hogs can gain a total of 1,000 pounds a day if they have access to cool showers during hot weather

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