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least, occasionally be done a breeder through some of his best stock, 

 which are naturally high in condition, and always fat, being thrown out, 

 but this would very seldom happen, and after a time, these judges of 

 condition would have quite as little difficulty in arriving at sound deci- 

 sions as to whether animals entered in the breeding classes were or 

 were not overfed, as the ordinary judges now have in placing the 

 animals in their classes in the positions to which they are entitled ; for 

 a judge of fat stock can, by handling a beast, tell at once in what stage 

 of fattening it is ; and there are many of our breeders thorough judges 

 in this respect. But, supposing that an occasional mistake were to 

 occur, and an injustice now and then be done, the evil arising in this 

 way is not worth consideration, compared with the benefit which* the 

 proposed arrangement would be certain to confer, not only on|the 

 breeder, but on the nation at large ; for there is no doubt but the evil, 

 to which notice is here called, is a very serious national one. 



