No. 4.] JUDGING BY SCALE OF POINTS. 109 



score this horse, and the rest of you ask him questions and 

 discuss the matter. You have men in your societies who 

 can score just as well as any one else. All it wants is prac- 

 tice. Let the man first fix in his own mind just what he 

 would have the animal to be if he could make it over, and 

 then mark it accordingly as it approaches his ideal. It is a 

 matter of education ; it is a matter requiring a little time, 

 but it is not a difficult matter for a man to do. I know 

 down in our State we have poultry associations which meet 

 once a month where they score in this manner. John Smith 

 is announced to score a lot of Brahmas, and at the next 

 meeting somebody else scores some other breed, and the 

 result is they have developed a class of experts in judging 

 poultry. The same thing can be done with horses, and with 

 farm products generally, and in that way jon have right 

 among yourselves the men who will solve this problem. I do 

 not believe that it is necessary or wise for you in your local 

 societies to go to the expense of sending away for an expert 

 to judge, but can take up the work among yourselves this 

 winter during the coming months to your great advantage. 



Question. I would like to know how high a score you 

 have marked on a horse ? 



Dr. TwiTCHELL. I do not remember that I ever scored a 

 horse on structural parts above 82. 



Mr. Hersey. You have not quite answered my point. 

 What I want answered is, how am I to tell or how is our 

 society to tell who are the experts in our society ? I have 

 no doubt we have them, but there is a question of who is an 

 expert. 



Dr. TwiTCHELL. You have in your own agricultural 

 society as good experts probably as you will find any- 

 where, and the use of a score card will aid greatly in ena- 

 bling them to come to just results. Now, before I go 

 further I want to answer the point raised by Mr. Hersey. 

 It is got at in this way : Take a horse into your hall at 

 your regular monthly meeting and let a half dozen of you, 

 with these cards, go on and score the horse without any 

 comment. Then sit down and compare your scores, and you 

 will be surprised to find how near you come together in 

 your work, and also how much such a comparison will help* 

 to strengthen your conception of the ideal. 



