Beauty is bought by 

 judgment of the eye. 



Shakespeare. 



J N 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 information will 

 supply keen powers of observation, 

 which in addition, must be kept in 

 practice by continuous use. The stu- 

 dent should never be dilatory in this, for once allow it to 

 be said that he sees a thing which he does not, the founda- 

 tion 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 results of 

 experience, observation and study 

 have merged together into a clearly 

 defined 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 conformation 

 and the highest types, so that the 

 least variation from these at once at- 

 tracts the attention. When a dis- 



What, then, makes a dog 

 beautiful? The possession 

 ofrthe 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 mai\?Et>ictetus. 



No pessimist ever made 

 much in the study of life 

 histories of animals. The 

 student of such had better 

 be an optimist out and out. 

 Samuel Lockmood. 



tinct ideal, based on the best types 

 and their highest qualities has been formed in the mind, 

 and this is supported by a discriminating eye, it is but 

 another step to render a correct judgment. 



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