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from which we are seeking to reap a harvest of gain, or the horse 

 which never falters or fails of the best there is in him. 



The whole line of production has become so abnormally un- 

 natural that the man at the helm must be in touch with more of 

 the forces at work in the bodily structure of his animals, if he 

 would control and increase production, size, rapidity of growth, 

 style, or speed. The measure of each is simply the measure of the 

 man. He is to be master of all, and because of this we touch 

 here, in this study of parts, one of the greatest problems which 

 can confront the breeder or grower. 



Perfection is and always will be before us. In this fact lies the 

 only incentive for growth and improvement, and it is the weak, 

 not the strong side of onr animals which afford opportunity for 

 the higher skill of man to be felt in improvement. Therefore 

 whatever will tend to make a man more critical, more observant, 

 more enthusiastic, more intelligent, is a help and a necessity. 

 Each individual animal and product varies in some point or part 

 peculiar to itself, and it is only in the summing up of the whole 

 that one can decide what is best. One cow is built along the best 

 dairy lines save that a heavy, beefy brisket shows itself, and we 

 wonder why she fails in her milk production at a time when we 

 expect much. There is her weakness as a dairy animal, and the 

 force of some beefy ancestor is felt as the period of lactation in- 

 creases. Another is light in brisket, but while carrying the same 

 dairy form in general, is stout and heavy in neck, and again an 

 obstacle presents itself to check production. Put these two cows 

 before a critical committee_, in a field of cows as good as they, 

 in other respects, but better in the two mentioned, and the owners 

 of these two will criticise w^hen the ribbons are distributed. Such 

 weaknesses in confirmation would hardly be carried by members 

 ef a committee day after day, and to give the reasons for the 

 award, a week after the gates closed, would be an impossibility. 

 Give your judge the score card and the record in all future time 

 will tell the story for itself. 



One or two other points call for discussion. The time will 

 come when breeders will demand, and societies will grants more 



