PREFACE. 



IN presenting the following remarks upon the important subject of 

 Judging Stock at Exhibitions, I feel the utmost deference for the 

 practical knowledge of our stockowners, and would not venture to 

 disagree, as I am aware I will do with many of them, were' it not that 

 the subject has been a matter of long and special study to me, to a 

 degree far exceeding that which they can have bestowed upon it. 



Having before us the fact that, under the present system of judging, 

 errors are of ve/y frequent occurrence, that there is little or no prospect 

 of a settlement of the wide divergence of opinion which now prevails 

 among acknowledged Judges as to the value of the different points and 

 qualities of stock, and that little or no real teaching is being given on 

 these points at our Exhibitions ; and believing, as I do, that until all 

 descripiions of stock are judged by points, these evils will never be 

 remedied, I make no apology for this attempt to ventilate the question, 

 affecting as it does in no indirect way the progress of the great Pastoral 

 interest of the Australian Colonies. 



