APPENDIX 
STOCK JUDGING 
To be able to tell at sight a good animal from a poor one is a valu- 
able qualification to the farmer and indispensable to the breeder. It 
is also good practice for the student to learn the art. 
The best way to begin this study is by directing the attention 
definitely to different “ points’? of the animal and give them careful 
study, one at a time, guided in this study by some recognized standard. 
Such a standard is known as a “scale of points,” and to facilitate 
this work some standard scales are given for the students’ use. 
In practice these score cards should be copied on sheets and each 
animal “scaled” separately, after which the markings of different 
animals should be compared, as should also the work of different 
students upon the same animal. 
It is for this work that the neighborhood supply of animals should 
be drawn upon, and perhaps nothing that can be done will tend so 
much to bring the school and the community together. 
Besides all this there is no better way of teaching accuracy of obser- 
vation than by the means of stock judging. The untrained observer 
sees the animal as a whole, but the student soon learns to separate 
the individual into separate characters or “ points,” and he learns 
thereby not only to recognize details, but also that animals, like people, 
may be partly good and partly bad. Altogether this line of work is 
commended to the schools and to the young. 
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