JUDGING BEEF TYPE OF CATTLE 



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The general appearance of the beef animal includes its 

 size, weight, form, quality and condition. These several 

 features have a general application to the entire animal, 

 and are given first consideration. It is natural and logical 

 to thus take measurement of the animal as a whole, follow- 

 ing this by a study of the parts in detail. 



Size and weight are two features that naturally are 

 closely associated. The demand, to-day, for meat-producing 



Fig. 125. The Points of a Beef Animal. 



animals, is for both size and weight. The practical breeder 

 emphasizes size. He seeks a beef animal with enough scale 

 or frame to have a certain weight at a given age. There- 

 fore, it must be conceded that if an animal has enough 

 weight for its age, it must have sufficient size. It is an 

 interesting fact, however, that in Great Britain in times 

 past, beef animals have not as a rule been weighed when 

 sold on the market, as in America, but have been measured 

 instead. In this case size was the prime factor, measure- 

 ments of length and girth of body enabling one to figure 



