by the scale at either 100 or 1000; and there is no doubt but the latter 

 would be the preferable aggregate, in order that the judges might have 

 ample scope to mark the differences which exist in the same points in 

 the different animals in a class. Where the i oo aggregate is used, a 

 good many of the points must be as low as 3, 2, and even i ; 

 and it can easily be seen that where the marks or values of the 

 same points are to be given to all the exhibits in a leet, and there 

 is only the range of a single number, or at most of two or three, it 

 would be impossible where there are five or six in the leet to give each 

 exhibit the correct number of marks which it deserves, for it would be 

 found in practice that no two of them are exactly the same in any one 

 point. Besides, the less judges are cramped in marking differences in 

 the various points of the different exhibits, the more easily and correctly 

 will their work be performed. It makes no difference to the judges 

 whether the aggregate be 100 or 1000, as the one aggregate, except in 

 the cases mentioned, is as easily worked as the other; but they will with 

 the latter number require to keep in view the large numbers they are 

 dealing with, and in marking the differences between the various exhibits 

 make these differences sufficiently wide. 



In the way in which the foregoing scale has been drawn up, the 

 judging might either be carried out (ist), by the single points, of 

 which there are 36, at the values given in the first column; or (2nd), 

 by the groups, of which there are 14, at the values summed up and 

 given in the second column ; or (3rd), by the seven subdivisions of 

 "Size," "General Quality," "Head," "Fore-quarter," "Middle," 

 " Hind-quarter, " and " Legs," &c., at the values appearing in the 

 third column. 



Of the three ways here mentioned, ihejirst, the single point system 

 would, for breeding stock, not only be the simplest, but also that 

 by which the awards would be the most correct and afford the 

 greatest amount of information ; for instead of having to come to a 

 decision, as they would have to do in judging by groups with regard to 

 two or three different points all differing to some extent in the different 

 animals in the class, and thereby causing discussion and delay the 

 judges working under the single points, would have to deal with one 

 point at a time ; and having only the one question to decide, would be 

 able to give their awards rapidly and correctly. In fact, judging by 

 the single points is just carrying out the wise old " saw" of doing only 

 one thing at a time the advantages of which are so well illustrated in 

 the process of pin-making. 



The only objection worth considering, which has been taken to this 

 mode of pointing, is that it would occupy too much time to go through 

 all the points in detail. Now, it may be that the judging would be more 

 quickly carried out by taking the points in groups, and more quickly still 

 as they have been arranged in subdivisions ; but cases would frequently 

 arise under both these modes of pointing, where the judges would differ 

 as to the number of marks to be allotted to a group or subdivision, and 



