LIVE STOCK JUDGING AND SELECTION. 



CHAPTER I. 

 THE LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY. 



Method of Development. — The subject of live stock judging 

 has become of widespread importance not .only through the 

 teaching of these courses in agricultural colleges, high 

 schools and other institutions but also through the increased 

 demand for knowledge among farmers who anticipate 

 following some phase of live stock work. Keen competition 

 among breeders and vendors of market animals has placed 

 the subject on a high plane. The real constructive breeder, 

 whose work is generally unappreciated, has perfected beauty 

 and utility of form which is responsible in the main for 

 revolutionizing the live stock breeding industry. Compara- 

 tively few people appreciate the improvement which has 

 been made in animal form thereby owing to the priority 

 of original development. A full realization of the im- 

 provement may be readily recognized, however, by com- 

 paring the original long-horn steer with the symmetrical, 

 deep-set, well-developed, compact form of the modern 

 bullock. 



This change from the lank, rangy animal to the close 

 compact form has been accomplished step by step. It 

 represents the work of more than a century and the guidance 

 of men who had clear mental pictures of what the ideal 

 animal should be. It represents the guidance of men who 

 have, through their own originality, principally, been able to 

 grasp, direct and mould the consequent forces of heredity. 

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