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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



THE USE OF THE SCORE CARD IN JUDGING BEEF CATTLE. 



BY W. J. RUTHERFORD, IOWA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



The score card as given below, is simply an enumeration of certain, 

 points and characteristics regarding early maturity, type, conformation, 

 condition and quality, with valuations for each that go to make up a beef 

 animal. 



It was never intended for the judge in the ring, but was devised in 

 order to put system into the study of our domestic animals — for the 

 student in the class-room and for the breeder at home with his herd. 

 The score card alone could never make a judge; that is not its purpose. 



W. J. RUTHERFORD. 



The man who has not formed a correct idea of what the beef animal 

 should be is not able to make an intelligent use of the score card. The 

 correct ideal of what the beef animal should be in type, early maturity, 

 conformation, condition and quality is obtained by a careful study of the 

 kind of animal that the market demands. 



In order to get a start let us take the student into the class-room, 

 where a good type of beef animal is held for the purpose of demonstration. 

 The student has his score card in hand, and the instructor points out the 

 different parts of the animal in the order named and teaches the student 

 the location of each. It will take a good lesson to impress the student 

 with the location of tongue root, flank, lion, twist, crops, pin bones and 

 many other points, the names of which he has not been accustomed to 

 use h*retofore. 



