224 Sheep Management, Breeds and Judging. 



husbandry in general, besides creating a desire to 

 raise the better and more profitable kind in prefer- 

 ence to the inferior grades. 



FEW FITTED TO JUDGE. 



Today we have not a great many judges of sheep 

 in America who have attained a national reputa- 

 tion in this line of work. The number of these is 

 so small that they can almost be counted on a 

 man's ten fingers. The majority of thein are men 

 who arc quite advanced in age, and their years in 

 life are counted. Therefore it is to be hoped that 

 more young men who like sheep will take an in- 

 terest in this work and become competent sheep 

 judges. They are surely needed to follow the 

 footsteps of the old veterans. 



Some men do not make an attempt to judge 

 sheep, in spite of the fact that they could easily fit 

 themselves to do so. The simple reason for this is, 

 perhaps, that they are afraid that they cannot come 

 up to the master shepherd's work with the shears 

 in trimming, for judging is somewhat difficult for 

 a man who himself is not a practical shepherd and 

 has never fitted or trimmed a sheep. 



A good judge must necessarily have the proper 

 type and conformation of each breed of sheep 

 strongly fixed in his mind, and must know the right 



