XII 



THE JUDGING OF COWS 



A VEET eminent teacher of animal industry has 

 said that he could learn more about a cow by 

 weighing her milk for a week and testing it with 

 the Babcock test than he could by a life-long ex- 

 amination of her according to any scale of points — 

 a conclusion in which any good dairyman will 

 heartily concur. But on the other hand, we may 

 not always be able to weigh and test her milk and, 

 moreover, there are certain accepted standards of 

 beauty and form in cattle, certain requirements as 

 to individuality insisted on in the show-ring and 

 the sales pavilion. No matter how much attention 

 is paid to official testing, we shall never cease to 

 exhibit cattle for prizes at the fairs and always 

 our agricultural college boys will continue to or- 

 ganize judging teams to compete in the art of 

 placing animals according to certain agreed stand- 

 ards of form, color, carriage, qualities of udder 

 and skin and hoof and horn. This judging and 

 scoring of animals is a fine art and one that de- 

 serves to be encouraged by lovers of good live-stock 

 and by our teachers of animal husbandry. It is 



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