Breeding and developing the trotter . /7>ffJL S!Tf>€k JWffft »r A J*//.r Tf/irft. If not convenient to obtain an engineer to runthe curve, it can be done as follows : Place astake midway between the parallel straight linesat each end; take a wire with the loop at the end,loose enough to turn upon the stake, and measureupon this wire two hundred and thirty-six feettwo and three sixteenths inches (the radius of thecurve), which from the centre stake will exactlyreach the ends of the straight lines; then describea semi-circle, beginning at the end of one side, 54 BREEDING THE TROTTER p
Breeding and developing the trotter . /7>ffJL S!Tf>€k JWffft »r A J*//.r Tf/irft. If not convenient to obtain an engineer to runthe curve, it can be done as follows : Place astake midway between the parallel straight linesat each end; take a wire with the loop at the end,loose enough to turn upon the stake, and measureupon this wire two hundred and thirty-six feettwo and three sixteenths inches (the radius of thecurve), which from the centre stake will exactlyreach the ends of the straight lines; then describea semi-circle, beginning at the end of one side, 54 BREEDING THE TROTTER putting down a stake every twelve feet, if this isthe length of the fence panels desired. To lay out a full mile track, select a level fieldof forty-two acres; draw through the center of it astraight line of four hundred and forty yards (aquarter of a mile). On each side of this line, andan exact distance of one hundred and forty yardstwo inches from it, draw parallel lines of equallength, so that the space between the two outer lineswill be two hundred and eighty yards, four inches. This
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