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constitution, the brightness of the eye, the thickness of the skin, 

 and the size of the neck are to be considered ; also the depth and 

 breadth through the heart and the placing of the legs. We 

 decide upon those two points together, — the general appearance 

 and apparent constitution. These are given ten points on the 

 score card, if perfect. Now we have completed the examination 

 of one cow\ We go to the next one and go through the same 

 performance. The outsiders are looking on but they have not 

 heard a word. They are simply seeing us go over the exami- 

 nation. What are the results ? The clerk has had time to make 

 his additions as we have gone along, and when we stop we look 

 over those dozen cards. Here is one marked 97, one 95, one 

 93, one 89 and so on. This is the result of a careful examination 

 of every one of those cows, in every part. We have examined 

 every feature, from the head to the udder and the feet as care- 

 fully and critically as we could, devoting, perhaps, six to ten 

 minutes *to each cow. We have done our best. Not a single 

 point has escaped us. We take the blue ribbon and hang it on 

 this cow, the red on that one, and the white on that one, and the 

 Gows are led back to their stalls. Now what does the public 

 know about it? Not a thing. The score card was given to the 

 boy who led the cow back to the stall. He commences to look 

 it over. The other boys congregate around. They find the 

 judge has taken two points off the neck. She is not full enough 

 at the throat, too narrow in the -neck veins. She is perfect in 

 every other way. The owner says, my cow is faulty only in her 

 neck; she is an ideal cow everywhere else. Who judged her? 

 The expert breeder, Valancey Fuller, or George Blanchard. 

 That man has his lesson. 



The other parties have their score cards, and they look the 

 cows over and find where they are defective. They go all 

 around and examine the cows and discuss them, and the men on 

 the outside participate in this discussion and examination. Thev 

 have the best work the judge could do, and they are discussing- 

 it and getting all the lessons out of it there are for them to learn. 

 They take the score cards home and examine them and apply 

 them to the rest of the animals in their herds, and in this way 

 they are able to establish in their minds what a typical Jersey cow 

 is like. 



