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Beauty is bough t by 

 judgment of the eye 



— Shakespeare. 



IN JUDGING LIVE STOCK there are two faculties which 

 * seem to require special development — observation and 

 judgment. 



The eye must see quickly and accurately, so that there may 

 be no mistake in the observations which are to form the basis for 

 a conclusion. While this is to a considerable extent dependent 

 on being informed on what to look for, yet no amount of informa- 

 tion will supply keen powers of observa- 

 tion, which in addition, must be kept in 

 practice by continuous use. The student 

 should never be dilatory in this, for once 

 allow it to be said that he sees a thing which he does not, the 

 foundation for candid criticism is being built on sand. It is better 

 to be " simpler than the infancy of truth " and completely candid 

 with one's observations than to be in the least deceptive or dilatory 

 in recording them. 



Not only should one be quick to see things as they really are 

 but there should be as much dispatch in detecting deviations from, 

 the correct standard. There is much 

 difficulty in this for a standard only forms 

 itself clearly in one's mind after the re- 

 sults of experience, observation and study 

 have merged together into a clearly de- 

 fined ideal. To formulate an ideal is 

 absolutely essential and in doing this it is imperative to familiarize 

 one's self with the good qualities of animal life, correct conform- 

 ation and the highest types, so that the least variation from these 

 at once attracts the attention. When a 

 distinct ideal, based on the best types 

 and their highest qualities has been 

 formed in the mind, and this is sup- 



What, then, makes a dog 

 beautiful ? The possession 

 of the excellence of a dog. 

 And what makes a horse 

 beautiful ? The possession 

 of the excellence of a horse. 

 What, then, makes a man 

 beautiful ? Is it not the po- 

 session of the excellence of 

 a man ? — Epictetus. 



No pessimist ever made 

 much in the study of life his- 

 tories of animals. The stu- 

 dent of such had better bean 

 optimist out and out. — Samuel 

 Lockwood. 



ported by a discriminating eye, it is but another step to render a 

 correct judgment. 



