APPENDIX 557 



(6) Time. 



1. In each of the classes eighteen minutes shall be allowed the 

 contestant to make his observations, record his placing, and write 

 such memoranda as he may desire. No contestant shall hold any 

 paper, card or device that will assist him while he is giving his 

 reasons before the judges, except that he will be handed the card 

 he turned in, which he will be allowed to retain while giving his 

 reasons. 



Each contestant shall appear singly before the judges and will 

 be allowed two minutes to give reasons for his placing of each 

 ring of animals. The contestant shall write his placing on a card 

 and hand it to the clerk as soon as he has finished the work of 

 placing the class. 



FORM OF CAED. 



Contestant's number 



Class- 



Placing : 

 1st 2nd 3rd 4th... 



Card shall be four inches by two and one-half inches. 



(7) The Rings of Livestock — How Selected. 



The representatives of institutions having full teams of students 

 in the contest shall divide themselves into committees, at a meet- 

 ing to be held in the amphitheatre on the morning of the contest 

 at 7 : 30 A.M., and immediately report their committee lists to the 

 Superintendent. It shall be the duties of these committees to 

 select and get out the rings of stock to be used in said students' 

 judging contest. It shall be their further duty to specify the 

 description of the ring that shall be given to the students. 



The representative of each institution having a team entered 

 shall inform these committees what stock on the exposition 

 grounds his team of students have worked upon. 



