Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . (Tarsus)as shown in cut 11 are: a, Tibia; b, Os Calcis; c, Astragalus; d, Cu-noides ; e, Naviculare ;/, Outer Cuneiform ; h, Splint; i, Cannon, (shankbone.) The hock is as important as it is complicated. It corresponds to theankle and heel in man, and is a prime factor in the means of the knee of the horse,
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . (Tarsus)as shown in cut 11 are: a, Tibia; b, Os Calcis; c, Astragalus; d, Cu-noides ; e, Naviculare ;/, Outer Cuneiform ; h, Splint; i, Cannon, (shankbone.) The hock is as important as it is complicated. It corresponds to theankle and heel in man, and is a prime factor in the means of the knee of the horse, it consists of small bones, interposed betweenthe upper bone. Tibia, and the Cannon bone below. These are six innumber, ^ given above. The projecting bone at the back, the heel bone,(Os Calcis), is moved by tendons arising from muscles in the lowerpart of the limb. One of the Main Springs.—^The principal one of these is the tendo*Achillis. In all fast anixuals it is much developed, since an increase m THE ANATOMY OF THE HORSE. 67 the length of this lever adds force to the spring; for it must be rememberedthat progression is simply a succession of springs. Hence in all four-footed animals, the chief motive power lies in the hinder limbs and hence, Fig. 1. Fig. CUT OF THE HOCK. again, the reason why these are so much developed. Whether the animalbe required for draft or saddle, the propelling power requires t6 be espe-cially studied. The skeleton is the frame-work upon which all this isdeveloped. CHAPTER m. THE MUSCUTx^R SYSTEM AJSTD INTERNAI, PUKCTIONS OF THB HORSE. TSE ECONOMY OP THE COVERING. 11. MUSCLES OF THEJaEAD AWD TJECK. III. MUSCLES OP THE SHOULDER AND BACK. IV. MUSCLES OF THE HINDER PARTS. Y. MUSCLES OP THE FORE LIMBS. VT. MUSCLES OF THE LEO AND FOOT. VII. STUDYING THE STRUCTURE. VIII. INTERNAL ECONOMY OF THE :10RSE. IX. EXTERNAL PARTS OF THE HORSE. I. The Economy of the Miiscular , as already stated, the bones are the frame-work
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