FACULTIES AND REQUIREMENTS IN JUDGING 23 



This increased activity and keen competition in modern 

 judging is due to the success which constructive breeders 

 have attained as students of Uve stock problems. The 

 science of breeding, feeding, and development was formerly 

 considered too simple for a study of the scientific roads of 

 improvement. Live stock breeders and feeders, however, 

 are awakening to the fact that it takes brain as well as brawn 

 to produce prize-winning animals. Not since the days of 

 the CoUings, Booth, Bates and Cruikshank, have stockmen 

 realized the depth of the problems in live stock selection, 

 breeding, and feeding. 



The real student of judging and selection must be 

 practical and keen sighted to attain success, either as a judge 

 or as a breeder. Since this is the final test of the breeder's 

 art, the student of judging and selection must have clearly 

 in mind the ideal animal for the various purposes intended in 

 the breeding or commercial world. Not until he has dis- 

 tinctly mastered these details of utility, and becomes keenly 

 alive to the minor differences in all parts of animal form, 

 can he expect to be classed as a dependable live stock critic. 



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