Fitting sheep for show ring and market . nimal which is readily recognized by the practicedbutcher. As before mentioned, to be able to distinguishthis difference one must have a very sensitive touch andmuch practical experience in handling sheep. Discord orharmony of touch tells whether we are handling a tub ottallow or a wealth of flesh. How very liable judges theworld over are to err in making their awards in fat stockclasses is often and amply proved by the results of theblock test. I wish it to be understood in the above paragraph thatI do not wish to go on record as saying that animals to
Fitting sheep for show ring and market . nimal which is readily recognized by the practicedbutcher. As before mentioned, to be able to distinguishthis difference one must have a very sensitive touch andmuch practical experience in handling sheep. Discord orharmony of touch tells whether we are handling a tub ottallow or a wealth of flesh. How very liable judges theworld over are to err in making their awards in fat stockclasses is often and amply proved by the results of theblock test. I wish it to be understood in the above paragraph thatI do not wish to go on record as saying that animals to beprofitable to the butcher must not be fat, for I well knowthat an animal to produce really good, sweet, tender andluscious meat must be fat or ripe. But what I wish toconvey is that fat animals are desirable only when carryinga wealth of flesh in proportion to and in harmony with theirdegree of fatness. No one will, I think, question my conten-tion that the flesh from fat animals is far and away superior FOR Show Ring and Market. 229. YEARLING WETHER WHEN DRESSED. 230 Fitting Sheep to that from the poorly finished ones; the flesh of the latterbeing too often tough, stringy, and almost tasteless. It is not my wish or intention to criticise, but I do think,and the block test has proved it to be so time and again,that the judges sometimes selected to pass on the exhibitsat the fat stock shows are sometimes working out of theirlatitude, their decision being given too often from a purelybreeders or fanciers standpoint. Some years ago whilelooking over the winning pens of yearling wethers at a lead-ing fat stock show I was asked my opinion of a pen that hadbeen awarded champion honors. I expressed myself thatso far as the weight of the animals was considered nadoubt the judges were right, but if they considered thosethe kind of animals that would make the butcher moneythey had without a possible shadow of doubt sadly erred intheir judgment. They handled, to my mind, exceedinglyblu
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