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of marks when animals of the different breeds meet in the ring. Thv.s 

 in judging, while all the exhibits receive the marks to which they are 

 fairly entitled and those only for the several points including " size" 

 and " weight," those which were superior in the meat and lightness of 

 offal would, in addition to these marks, receive the proposed allowance 

 for these superior qualities. If this were done, and the point system fully 

 adopted, the judging of the different breeds of stock in the same class 

 would become a comparatively easy and satisfactory matter, and the 

 tedious, uncertain, and highly unsatisfactory- work, which under the pre- 

 sent mode of judging has now annually to be gone through, would be at an 

 end while the questions as to what breed of stock is the most profit- 

 able for the breeder and farmer would be in a fair way of being settled. 



With correct awards there would of course be uniformity, and we 

 should not then see the same animals change places, as they now fre- 

 quently do, at the different shows. 



The second advantage the large amount of information which the 

 point system affords will be easily seen. In no other way can inform- 

 ation be given with respect to the exhibits at a show, in such a full, 

 concise, and practical shape as by the point system. In fact, the award 

 papers are elaborate reports on each exhibit pointed, and show how 

 near it comes to, or how far it is from, perfection in every point and 

 quality an animal should possess. In any other way it would take the 

 judges ten times the time and labour to give the same amount of infor- 

 mation with respect to the different exhibits, which they can do in the 

 award papers, and then it would not be of nearly the same value to 

 breeders and the public. To turn the award papers and points to the 

 best possible account, however, they should be analyzed, and the marks 

 so placed in tabulated form as to show how all the animals stand with 

 respect to each other in the different points. This has been done in 

 Appendix B with the pro Jorma award paper given in Appendix A : 

 and it can be seen at a glance, not only how the different animals in a 

 class stand with respect to each other in the various points, but it 

 could, be so also with respect to exhibits in the different classes by 

 carrying on tbe analysis. This would be very valuable and interesting 

 to breeders, but especially to those who wished to improve their stock 

 in any particular point, for by glancing at the analysis, they would at 

 once see where they could obtain stock high in such a point, and apply 

 accordingly ; while, again, exhibitors would have their attention parti- 

 cularly directed to the points in which the animals were defective, ami 

 be thus led to purchase stock to remedy these defects. 



Further, these award papers being permanent records, would be 

 of great advantage to breeders in after years ; for instead of getting, as 

 they in most cases now do, a vague, doubtful, and imperfect account of 

 the points and appearance of the progenitors of animals, which they 

 are inclined to purchase on account of their excellence in some parti- 

 cular point, they would only have to turn to the proceedings of one or 



