Word: teatless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pfizer pig-brooder the recording plays every hour on the hour, 24 hours a day. The little pigs thrive mightily under this forced draught. None are trampled or eaten; no luckless runts are left teatless. Pfizer says that out of 3,000 pigs scientifically nursed on six farms, only 5% died. The normal mortality under the sow's regimen is 21% to 33%. The pigs grow faster, too. They reach 28 Ibs. in six weeks instead of the normal eight weeks, and they attain marketable size 40 days earlier...
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