ART. 23.--_Quality_, to combine this with the other highly important and characteristic properties of the Devon, requires no small skill, observation, and care in the breeder. For without this, in the eye of the experienced grazier and butcher, the animal is considered nearly worthless. No beauty of form can compensate for a hard, stiff feature, unyielding to the touch. The skin should have, when pressed between the thumb and finger, a mellow, yet substantial feel, and when beneath the outspread hand it should move easily with it, back and forth, as though resting on a soft, elastic, cellular substance, which becomes firmer as the animal ripens, forming a beautiful marbled beef, which is highly esteemed in the London market. 10 A thin papery skin is objectionable in a cold climate. --- Perfection. 100 The foregoing Scale of Points of Devon Cattle which the Association has adopted, is mainly that published by the New York State Agricultural Society, with such alterations and additions as the Committee deemed proper. The numbers affixed to the points described form the _maximum_ that is allowed for each; and in proportion as the animal under examination is deficient in any point, so must the number be decreased, even should nothing be allowed for that point. Points which are characteristic, and therefore _common to the breed_, though very valuable in themselves, are marked comparatively low, because they are easily obtained, and demand but little attention on the part of the breeder; nevertheless an animal _not_ possessing the characteristics of _the breed_, must of necessity be almost worthless. On the other hand, points of less value, which are characteristic _deficiencies_ in the breed, or at any rate difficult to sustain at their maximum excellence, are marked numerically high, as they go _far_ to complete the natural excellence of the animal. H. M. SESSIONS, SO. WILBRAHAM, Ms., } _Committee_ B. H. ANDREWS, WATERBURY, Conn., } _on Devon_ EPHRAIM H. HYDE, STAFFORD, Conn., } _Pedigrees._ The following _Blank Table_ is for the use of _Judges_ in their examination of _Devon Cattle_, according to the _Scale of Points_ adopted by the _Cattle Breeders' Association_. _No premium_ should be awarded to an animal having less than seventy-five Numbers or approved Points.