Other Things Necessaet Besides Feed. 103 



show ring, are not only a mass of grease and lamp black, 

 but the attendants are about as badly blacked up as the 

 hogs, and before the Judge is half through he is also more 

 or less greased up. I have known of cases where the Judge 

 had to send his clothes to be cleaned each night or put on a 

 clean pair of overalls each day. All that is necessary as a 

 dressing is something that will make the hair glossy and 

 yet not be gummy. 



EXERCISE ON THE SHOW CIRCUIT. 



The good herdsman and care-taker does not lie in bed un- 

 til late in the morning, but is up early and has his show ani- 

 mals out on the grass .somewhere about the Fair grounds, 

 and drives them around for an hour until each animal is 

 thoroughly emptied out and has had proper exercise. 



