No. 4.] JUDGING BY SCALE OF POINTS. 105 



And the path that leads to a House of Your Own 



Climbs over the bouldered hills, 

 And the path that leads to a Bank Account 



Is swept by the blast that kills ; 

 But the men who start in the paths to-day 

 In the Lazy Hills may go astray. 



In the Lazy Hills are trees of shade 



By the dreamy Brooks of Sleep, 

 And the rollicking River of Pleasure laughs. 



And gambols down the steep ; 

 But when the blasts of the Winter come, 

 The brooks and the river are frozen dumb. 



Then woe to those in the Lazy Hills 



When the blasts of Winter moan, 

 "Who strayed from the path to a Bank Account 



And the path to a House of Their Own ; 

 These paths are hard in the Summer heat, 

 But in Winter they lead to a snug retreat. 



'(A Tiorse was then brought into the hall and taken to the 

 platform, and Dr. Twitchell proceeded to illustrate his method 

 of judging a horse in accordance with the scale of points for 

 judging horses established by the Massachusetts State Board 

 'of Agriculture for use at the fairs of the year 1893.) 



Dr. Twitchell. In judging by the scale of points it is 

 not necessary to have the whole class of horses before us, as 

 we take one at a time, and measure it by itself. Whether 

 you are judging a live animal or a ball of butter, it only 

 needs, as I attempted to show in my talk, that we keep in 

 mind our standard of perfection, which is what one would 

 have each part or quality if he could reconstruct to suit his 

 individual fancy. The l)enefit to the individual is that his 

 ideal grows more definite all the while he is applying the 

 scale. You cannot score a horse and go away and think 

 about it without seeing where your standard of perfection has 

 been strengthened. It may be somewhat a matter of intui- 

 tion in the beginning, but practice makes clear and distinct 

 the details. Nevertheless it is very simple. I cannot de- 

 scribe to you my standard of perfection, but I can use the 

 card as an aid in illustrating what I would have, and there 

 is the great benefit of the score-card. You remember what 

 I said about scoring butter. A sample score has been sent 



