Live Stock Points.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 307, 26 January 1894, Page 3

Live Stock Points.

An excellent system is that adopted at some of the agricultural colleges by which the young students take a score card and judge of an animal according to figures on the card. The parts of a horse or cow are all ticked off and named npon. the card, with.a scalet of figures indicating^ the degrees of excellence. The young fanner or liye stock student takes the Card, examines the beast all over and sets down in the. blank spaces ; ljhe figures which he judged iefong there: * Then ihe professor take's the carol and reviews the youth's knowledge of the subject and' gets down' his marfe opposite that youth's name, i In , this way students will learn to jmdge at sight of the weight, qualities, etc., of all farm animals and will not be i^aken in in baying, They will also be fitted in, a scientific way to beconx© judges at agricuitural fairs. The time is coming when the successful farmer or live stock man will need to be a graduate of an agricultural college, to hold his own in bis occupation. Ignorance, superstition and oldhunkerdoxn will no longer go in the farming end live stock business. ' The, live stock score cards in use at the agricultural colleges ought to be also, distributed Among the farmers and live stockmen of the country, so that, they ; may employ their leisure moments learning; the points of perfect animals and,, the right names of the various divisions of the animal anatomy. 6. B. Morris won $80,000 on the race course with* his' feoffies last 'year/ The list of losers is not given. Hie rape plant, like the turnip, will make milk taste of it unless fed to cows with care. For sheep in the fall, however, nothing is better. Do. not let* your idle horses feed too high and stay in the stable without ex- : ercise or they will catch azostnria or hflemoglobinnria, a yejber^iary surgeon says. Maybe, he means fullness of blood and blood poij9toipg,.btUi onais not quite sure. Aliytidw/Whaifcever" it is, we are not going to let our horses catch it if we can help it.

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