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BULLETIN 593, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
the fingers should be held together and the hand kept flat in parting 
the wool to note condition of wool and skin. With beginning students 
an excellent plan is to use a shorn sheep in order that they may get 
correct impressions of body form. Although the diagram on page 4 
(fig. 4) will aid in giving an idea of the outline of the sheep in fleece 
to that of the shorn animal, it will not have value equal to a compari- 
son of a sheep in full fleece with one that has been shorn (fig. 11). 
Fig. 10. — The right ^vay to move a sheep. 
If the students have opportunity to work with sheep fitted for the 
show ring, they may profit also by a comparison of a sheep which has 
been trimmed with one which has not. 
Method of examination. — In using the score card the students 
should have a systematic, definite mode of procedure. The first ob- 
servations will be of necessity general ones, to be followed by a more 
