RULES OF STUDENTS' CONTEST IN JUDGING 



DAIRY CATTLE AT NATIONAL DAIRY 



SHOW, 1916. 



ELIGIBILITY OF CONTESTANTS. 



Any student of an agricultural college, or of a secondary school 

 under direct supervision of a land-grant State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, who is regularly matriculated in a course of at least two 

 years in agriculture or dairying and has taken not less than twelve 

 weeks' undergraduate work during the calendar year in which the 

 show is held, who has never taken part in any dairy cattle judging 

 contest of a national or international character, who has never 

 acted as an ofBcial judge of cattle at a fair or show, and who has 

 at no time served in the capacity of a teacher of animal husbandry 

 or dairy husbandry in an agricultural college or secondary school 

 as above mentioned, may enter as a member of a team. 



SUPERINTENDENT. 



1. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the contest to 

 see that all rules and regulations governing the contest are duly 

 carried out, and that the contest is conducted with fairness and 

 justice to all concerned. He shall decide all questions which may 

 arise in connection with the interpretation of the rules governing 

 the contest. 



2. He shall have a sufficient number of clerks and assistants to 

 help him in conducting the contest. 



3. He shall direct the contestants as to which class to judge, time 

 to commence work, and time to stop. 



4. After instructing the contestants in a body regarding the con- 

 test, the form in which to prepare their reasons, etc., he shall say 

 nothing to any contestant as to the method for the contestsint to 

 follow, either in judging the class or in writing his reasons. 



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