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show, arrangements should be made for a quantity of cut 

 grass or tares to be supplied, or, if the season is too early 

 or too late for this, a few roots. With the excitement 

 and worry from the constant stream of exhibitors that 

 are continually passing, goats do not consume much food 

 at shows, and if the exhibition extends over several days 

 the yield of the animals generally suffers in consequence. 

 It is therefore very necessary that what food is supplied 

 them should be of a succulent character. 



'Providing an Attendant. 



Exhibitors of stock such as horses and cattle invariably 

 send a man in charge of them, but this is not always 

 the case with goat exhibitors, many of whom only keep 

 a few such animals, and would find it too expensive 

 to incur the cost of a man to look after them. As goat- 

 breeders have to be encouraged to exhibit rather than 

 otherwise, it will be necessary for the committee of a 

 show to provide a suitable man to take charge of the 

 goats whilst at the show, and he should be able to milk as 

 well as feed them. It is usual to pay 55. a day for this 

 service, the man being, of course, under the supervision 

 of the steward, who will find it to his advantage to have 

 such a person under him who can receive and fasten up 

 the goats as they arrive on the ground, and replace them 

 in their crates for delivery to the railway companies when 

 the show is over. Such a man should be provided with 

 a badge of some sort, so that he may be identified by the 

 exhibitors. 



Judging. 



When goat shows were first started, as the exhibits were 

 then generally small the chief point to encourage was 

 size, but when this after some ten years' breeding under 



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