APPENDIX 



STOCK JUDGING 



To be able to tell at sight a good animal from a poor one is a valu- 

 able qualification to the farmer and indispensable to the breeder. It 

 is also good practice for the student to learn the art. 



The best way to begin this study is by directing the attention 

 definitely to different '' points " of the animal and give them careful 

 study, one at a time, guided in this study by some recognized standard. 



Such a standard is known as a " scale of points," and to facilitate 

 this work some standard scales are given for the students' use. 



In practice these score cards should be copied on sheets and each 

 animal '' scaled " separately, after which the markings of different 

 animals should be compared, as should also the work of different 

 udents upon the same animal. 



It is for this work that the neighborhood supply of animals should 

 be drawn upon, and perhaps nothing that can be done will tend so 

 much to bring the school and the community together. 



Besides all this there is no better way of teaching accuracy of obser- 

 vation than by the means of stock judging. The untrained observer 

 sees the animal as a whole, but the student soon learns to separate 

 the individual into separate characters or " points," and he learns 

 thereby not only to recognize details, but also that animals, like people, 

 may be partly good and partly bad. Altogether this line of work is 

 commended to the schools and to the young. 



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