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mediately, but there was not much they could do,” she said. All that were saved were 2 males, a dozen gilts and three shoats.”

Fireman Everett Smith of Amissville said he knocked boards off of the back part of the barn and was able to free some of the hogs that were saved. “It was really a pathetic sight," said Smith. “One of the animals had been burned and was lying down. I thought it was gone, but when I got the board off the barn, the hog was able to get up and run for it,” he continued.

The Sheffields went Into the hog farming business about a year ago and had just realized their first crop. The barn was insured, but not enough, according to Mrs. Sheffield. The animals were not insured.

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