American poultry world . good and prove their fitness for thework there will be a lot of anxious ones to take theirplaces. The trouble has been that a lot of half-fledgedfanciers have thrust themselves upon the market, seek-ing appointments, while in this as in other important call-ings the job should seek the man. The chief requisite ofa good poultry judge is an inherited love for animals, es-pecially the feathered race, and yet the boy who pets th-3hens and for sport torments the dog or stones the cathas poor stuff in him for making a poultry judge. Then,to these desired qualities it is nece
American poultry world . good and prove their fitness for thework there will be a lot of anxious ones to take theirplaces. The trouble has been that a lot of half-fledgedfanciers have thrust themselves upon the market, seek-ing appointments, while in this as in other important call-ings the job should seek the man. The chief requisite ofa good poultry judge is an inherited love for animals, es-pecially the feathered race, and yet the boy who pets th-3hens and for sport torments the dog or stones the cathas poor stuff in him for making a poultry judge. Then,to these desired qualities it is necessary to add study andexperience to complete the fitting for the work. Withstudy we cannot be too familiar and of experience we can-not get too much. It looks ridiculous to see a greenhorn try to make theawards in a class of which he knows nothing except whathe has read in books. It is no wonder that some of themare anxious and willing to let the exhibitors say whichbirds shall be awarded the prizes^ When some good ones. An excellent portrait of D. J. Lambert, poultry instructor, Rhode IslandCollege of Agriculture, Kingston. Views below the portrait show classwork in poultry judging and the incubators for class use —Ed. are passed that ought to be among the winners, theres acomplaint coming, or, worse still perhaps, a protest andthe committee meets and after talking over the matterdecides that there is something wrong with the methodof making the awards. At the next annual meeting of theassociation they vote to change from the score card tocomparison or vice versa for their next show. This changewith the same judges would produce the same results. The best birds will win whether they are scored or com-pared, providing the judge knows his business and doesthe best he knows. I want to go on record as saying thatI think the majority of them do this in every instance andwhen mistakes are made, they are of the head rather thanof the heart. If one is employed that is prone to hando
Size: 1467px × 1704px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorcurtisgr, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookyear1910
