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by not having their cattle properly broken. If you have a bad ani- 

 mal or a couple of bad ones, there is only one time to bring them 

 in, and that is the last thing. Put the quiet ones in first, and then 

 put the bad ones in later and they will not do as much harm. 



Fitting Animals for Shotu Purposes. — Fitting animals for show 

 purposes is different from fitting them for sale. The first thing you 

 must have in fitting an animal for show purposes is the animal. 

 If you have not got a good animal, you can not, by any method of 

 feeding or management, make him a prize winner. You must 

 have the right kind of animal. You had better look your animals 

 over carefully before you spend much time in fitting them for show 

 purposes. If you are not sure you have got a good animal, it is 

 much better to throw it out early than after spending six months 

 of the year in feeding it, because it will be thrown out somewhere. 

 Of those things which go to make a good show animal, the first 

 is con-formation. 



Another thing is breed type. I don't know of any place where 

 the breed type is not important. It is very essential in any class 

 of live stock. You must have that. Another point is constitution. 

 You must have constitution for two reasons : It is first of all essen- 

 tial to give you fattening qualities. You cannot force an animal 

 to do its best, unless it has a rugged constitution. Furthermore, 

 in the breeding ranks, the judges are paying a great deal of atten- 

 tion to constitution, and we will have to pay more attention to it 

 ourselves. Another thing is good feet and legs. We want size, but 

 we want quality with it, and we want a good coat of hair and a 

 good hide. 



Feeding for Show Purposes. — Next comes the question of feed- 

 ing. After you get the animal, the next thing is to feed it. Feeding 

 varies with the different ages of the animals. Of course, with 

 calves, they should have plenty of milk. They should have some 

 roughage and a grain ration composed of some corn, largely oats 

 and oil meal, or corn, barley and wheat bran. Some showmen even 

 give milk to the yearlings, but that is not necessary. If an animal 

 is off its coat, I don't know of any way you can improve the hide 

 so rapidly as to allow the animal to suck the cow and get plenty of 

 new milk. This will do it when everything else will fail. Ordi- 

 narily, we should aim to rear the yearling on something else. Feed 

 alfalfa during the winter and grass during the summer months. 

 For the grain part of the ration feed ground oats, some corn, 

 ground barley, oil meal and wheat bran, but oats is especially good. 



