18 BULLETIN 593, U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
the fingers should be held together and the hand kept flat in parting: 
the wool to note condition of wool and skin. With beginning students 
an excellent plan is to use a shorn sheep in order that they may get 
correct impressions of body form. Although the diagram on page 4 
(fig. 4) will aid in giving an idea of the outline of the sheep in fleece 
to that of the shorn animal, it will not have value equal to a compari- 
son of a sheep in full fleece with one that has been shorn (fig. 11). 
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Fic. 10.—The right way to move a sheep. 
If the students have opportunity to work with sheep fitted for the 
show ring, they may profit also by a comparison of a sheep which has 
been trimmed with one which has not. 
Method of examination—In using the score card the students 
should have a systematic, definite mode of procedure. The first ob- 
servations will be of necessity general ones, to be followed by a more 
