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judging Stock in Germany. 



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potatoes for several years afterwards ; beet, swedes, carrots and 

 cabbages are also attacked by the fungus. Cereals may be 

 sown with safety on infected land. In the case of gardens and 

 allotments, where potatoes are of necessity grown every year, 

 the trenches in which the potatoes are planted should be sprinkled 

 with powdered sulphur. 



Lime favours the development of the fungus in the soil ; the 

 same is true of stable manure, night-soil, &c. Acid manures 

 should be applied to land that is infected. 



Scabbed potato peelings should not be given to pigs unless 

 they have been boiled. Burning is the safest, and in the end 

 the most economical method of dealing with them. 



The German Agricultural Society have recently adopted a 

 system of judging live stock by points at the shows held under 

 their auspices, and in one of their publica- 

 Method of tions a review is given of the systems which 



^in* Germany 3 are * n use or wmcn nave been proposed at 

 different times, together with an account 

 of the method which the Society, after considerable discussion, 

 finally decided to adopt. In Saxony, for instance, a simple 

 system of judging is in force, the points being distributed as 

 follows :— Breeding, 3 ; head, hide, and horns, 3 ; length of 

 back, 3 ; fore-quarters, 3 ; hind-quarters, 3 ; milking proper- 

 ties, 3 ; and general appearance, 6 ; and more or less similar 

 schemes are employed in other parts of Germany, as well as in 

 Austria, Belgium, and Switzerland. In Baden, thirteen separate 

 points are enumerated to which marks are allotted, and the 

 cattle must also come up to certain standards of measurement. 

 In Wurtemberg measurements are taken for the guidance of 

 the judge. 



The method adopted by the German Agricultural Society 

 enables the judge to mark the points of the animals according 

 to the following scale :— Excellent, 5 ; good, 4 ; fairly good, 3 ; 

 medium, 2 ; sufficiently satisfactory, 1 ; deficient, o. The 

 maximum marks to be allotted each characteristic are as 

 follows : — 



