AN OLD PROBLEM.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 975, 16 November 1910, Page 10

AN OLD PROBLEM.

JUDGING TO TYPE. 1 - ' -•There is scarcely a show held in New i Zealand but discussion arises about the alleged futility of endeavouring to judge 1 consistently to type, or -about some judg<) departing from consistency in type. Tho I following very interesting article on the ' subject is by a writer in the American publication, "The Breeders' Gazette":— "Wo were looking .at three' Holstein A calves—a ])rofossor, two dairymen and J myself—and I was asked to. place them; j Two of them were beautiful rather, re- 5 fined types of this great breed; the other j was of the coarser sort with' tho promise, i of a great grand milk,cow that would do' 1 lots of business. I. placed one of tho \ refined type first. While • she was fine in her lines she >showe(l plenty of constitution. Tho coarser ono was second and the other came third. " 'You can not do that,' claimed tho ■ professor; 'it is not consistent. _ How can j an educational show bs given if you are J not consistent?'. j "I will say right here that ,tho pro- \ lessor knows more about milk cattle than j I do. That is not tho point, but the c constant cry for consistency of ■ typo in c the show ring. Both milkmen said I was ' right and moro than that one of them c would have placed the thick heifer first ~ if he was in the Show ring, to mako the B placing of the finer types two three for r the sakb of consistency, though he liked a best the better heifer of the finer type, 1> just as I did. _ * "This looks to me like yielding to popu- i lar clamour—going into the show ring to T establish your , reputation as a judge, not j to judge tfie merits of tho stock. . A t judge seldom enters the ring but that he t is confronted with animals that are first j class according to their type and others J .thai are inferior from any jjoint of view. I j.