JUDGING. 



Common Principles — Study in the Show-yard — Angle of Shoulder 

 — Flat Foot of the Horse— Action — Cylindrical Shape of Feeding 

 Animal— Signs of Quality — Culley's Points of a Ram, Bull, Pig 

 — Flat Rib — Springing Rib — George Stevenson — A practised Eye 

 requisite for Judging — Scrap-book— Lines of Beauty — Age of 

 Horse— External Characteristics of the Milch Cow — Youatt— Mr. 

 Stephens — Isle of Wight Farmer. 



The principles of judging an animal are few and 

 simple ; in the main, much the same for the cow, 

 sheep, and pig ; in fact, the meat-producing kinds. 

 The horse has a few in common with them, but so 

 many different, as to require his being treated of 

 separately. Common to all are the excellences of 

 the sloping shoulder, the angular quarter, the tail 

 well set on, the springing rib, the full eye, the small 

 fine nose, the strong loin, the mellow skin, the airy 

 bearing of the head and neck, the easy gait, the 

 general mien of dignity and grace. These are all 

 indicative of the first-class animal of either breed. 

 To be low, lengthy, short-jointed, broad of beam, are 

 attributes of value in each breed. Yet have they all 

 their distinctive characteristics besides, which may be 

 soon learnt in practice when once the eye has got 



