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more definite shape. All do not have intuitive perceptions in the 

 same direction, but all do have intuitive perceptions in some direc- 

 tion. In judging, we always measure by our ideal. It is the only 

 eafe standard; it is what we would have if we could transform to 

 suit our fancy. No matter what the system, whether in public or 

 private, here is the bar of justice to which the individual animal 

 or product is to be brought. 



Granting these premises, what is their application to the topic 

 of the hour? Just this, that the method of judging should be 

 that which will be of greatest service to the individual owner 

 and exhibitor in the to-morrows before him. Men may come and 

 go but breeding is to continue, and always along the line of im- 

 provement, simply because our necessities will force us up and 

 on in the study of animal economy and the appreciation of animal 

 machinery. Have we come to the full standard of our ideals; if 

 so there is no future for us, and we are but cumberers of the earth. 

 If not, then is there a call for the bringing out in clear and unmis- 

 takable lines that ideal which we would create and establish, an 

 ideal of form, courage, intelligence, service, and as we reach after 

 and seek to grasp its outlines, they will still float in the upper 

 realm of our consciousness, but the standard we shall attain to 

 will gradually rise tow^ard the ultimate in quantity and quality. 



It is the natural tendency wdth men working alone to drift 

 unconsciously into fixedness of habit. The evil attending this is 

 recognized. Out of this condition comes the low standard of pro- 

 duction, the large per cent, of unprofitable stock, the quantity of 

 inferior products, the evidence of a want of appreciation of the 

 best means and methods of marketing — whieh, to-day, is fully 

 one-half the story. Out of this condition comes the opposition to 

 books and newspapers, the feeling that agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations are fads and not necessities, expensive luxu- 

 ries which may benefit the few but cannot be of service to the 

 many. All this is to my mind perfectly natural, and while we 

 can see a great advance, as we mark the milestones of the past, 

 there is needed a getting down to simple problems and a study 

 of parts in sole relation to the whole, and with the one thought 



