The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-02-02
PRACTICAL MAN
BEST TO JUDGE
AT EXPOSITIONS
Copies of Marshall's Adj
dress In Chicago Receiv-
ed In Fargo

The judging OF livestock is by no
means an exact science yet and there
is no place a man can learn more
about ii than from his observation At
the ring side where good judges are
placing il, Duncan Marshall, minister
of agriculture Of Alberta, Canada
told his audience in his address be-
fore the annual meeting of the AM
erican Association Of Fairs and tx
positions, held in Chicago.
Copies Of his address in printed
form have reached +. w. McRoberts,
and Don Moore, secretaries Of the
Fargo and the Grand Forks Fair as
sociatiOns, respectively, and who
were both in attendance at the meet
ing which was held in the Auditorium
hotel. The address delivered by Mr..
Marshall has been sent out to the fair
secretaries OF the northwest through
the board Of agriculture OF the state
Of South Dakota, at Huron.
"The Ringside Seat.
Il brought my boys with me to the
International exhibition this year.
said Mr.. Marshall, in order that they
might learn something about short
horn cattle, and l am every pleased
that perhaps this has been the
strongest, at any rate one Of the
strongest NAn1DlNS OF SDOE EhALAM
that has ever been held in Chicago.
There is no way that either men or
boys will get better ideas OF what
good judges think of livestock, and
the reasons why they place one ami
NAL above another than by attend
ance at the ringside at the expoEi-
ton.
My experience with judges in
livestock is that prefer the man who
has had the agricultural college
training, If at all possible and then
has had the actual experience in
breeding and raising livestock him
self. because after all that Is essen
tial. And IL / were 10 Judge between
and we have schools Of agriculture
In our Province, and l am an en-
thusiastic supporter of agricultural
education in every phase OF it-but
II / had to choose between the man
with the college training alone and
the man with the experience alone,
then I would take the fellow who was
raised in the cow stable, because he
would beat the other fellow every
time. And let me say believe there
is perhaps no more important feature
than this that enters into the selec-
ton Of our judges.
Practical Training Needed.
'If had my way, | would not al-
low anybody to teach in an aEricul-
turai college anywhere, who had not
farmed and successfully farmed, and
made living at the job.
Il have found that the greatest
success is achieved at exhibitions by
getting judges Of that type whenever
you can get them, because remem-
Der, the agricultural college training
is important. A man can learn all
there is to know, that is the most
there is to know, not ALL but he can
learn enough about farming 10 make
a good farmer without going TO the
agricultural college. And he can
learn a great deal about livestock
without having any training. It will
take him sixty or seventy years to do
it, but II can be done But life in
only brief period of time, and IL is
a lot better I'm any business, especial
ly in the business of agriculture to
learn little by the experience OF the
other Fellow as we'll as to spend all
your time on your own experience
learning IL that way And after al
training in agricultural colleges a..
or should be simply learning by the
other fellows experience. That Is,
the instruction that is given in them
should be the experience of other men
who have been operating land in that
part Of the country and who have
been raising live stock.
The practical man with the erain-
ing is the kind Of man we want 10
get to do the Judging at our fairs
and think that the Judging iB some
thing, IL the fair is to have the real
educational value for which we spend
the money-and that should be the
only reason why we spend the money
on exhibition thing that is some
thing for which we want to get the
very hest and the most practical and
most capable men; let them hand ont
the awards.