LIVE-STOCK JUDGING 



CHAPTER I 

 GENERAL VIEW 



THE ultimate object of live-stock husbandry is the pro- 

 duction of market animals and their products, an end 

 which is attained by two steps or stages, breeding and 

 feeding. The one furnishes the raw material, the other 

 finishes the product. Thus there are two groups of 

 husbandmen, those concerned with the production of the 

 animal machine and those engaged in the employment 

 of this machine for the manufacture of animal products. 



There are, furthermore, two classes of breeders, one whose 

 efforts are devoted to the breeding of foundation stock and 

 the improvement of the race in general, another whose 

 purpose is to supply the feeders from their studs, herds 

 and flocks. The latter are obviously dependent upon the 

 former. The breeder either may finish or work his own 

 stock, as is usually the case with hogs and commonly with 

 horses, dairy cattle and sheep, or may dispose of them while 

 immature or thin to the feeder, as is the rule with beef 

 cattle and range sheep. In some instances, therefore, the 

 breeder is also the feeder, while in others the line between 

 them is rather sharply drawn. 



The position of the breeder is fundamental and of 

 primary importance, as he determines the grade of mate- 



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