Show Handling Stock I The term handling Stock is a technical one more particularly applied ap-plied to cattle than other domestic I animals but a practical knowledge I of it even in sheep and swine is consid red nportantin England by all breeders Numerous live stock exhibitions commence this month in various I States of the Union and they will continue to the last of November In order for visitors to judge better of the quality of the animals submitted sub-mitted to their inspection I think it is important that they should know what handling is and although it is difficult to define in words I will make the attempt at the same time suggesting to everyone who has not a practical knowledge of it to get some person who has to give him lessons direct from the animals he TL is inspecting before mm JG is this When the fingers are moderately pressed upon the fleshy parts of an animal and the hair hide and especially the flesh beneath have a fine soft elastic spring it is called good handling on the contrary if they are coarse thick hard and rigid to the feeling with little or no spring under the fingers that is called bad handling Of course there are as many degrees in handling hand-ling from Very bad to very good as there are grades of animals The better an animal handles the better it feedsthat is the sooner It will mature and become fully grown for the purpose of breeding or too fat for the butcher and a good handler will do this at leas consumption of food than a bad oneLioe Stock Journal |