. The family horse : its stabling, care and feeding : a practical manual for horse-keepers . Horses. Fig. 15.—STEAIGHT HOOP. Fig. 16.—KNEE-SPEtTNa. ing appearance. It has a prominent eye, wide forehead, broad jowls, fine muzzle, and nicely-shaped ; Feet and Less.—But the points in a horse upon which every- thing else literally rests, are good feet and legs. Without them, the best breeding, the most perfectly formed head and body, are of no avail. The illustrations, flgs. 11 to 33, after drawings by H. M. Hart- mann, show the right and wrong kinds of legs and feet. Figure 11 shows the


. The family horse : its stabling, care and feeding : a practical manual for horse-keepers . Horses. Fig. 15.—STEAIGHT HOOP. Fig. 16.—KNEE-SPEtTNa. ing appearance. It has a prominent eye, wide forehead, broad jowls, fine muzzle, and nicely-shaped ; Feet and Less.—But the points in a horse upon which every- thing else literally rests, are good feet and legs. Without them, the best breeding, the most perfectly formed head and body, are of no avail. The illustrations, flgs. 11 to 33, after drawings by H. M. Hart- mann, show the right and wrong kinds of legs and feet. Figure 11 shows the horse from a side view. The legs and body of a horse of average normal shape just fill a square, formed by a horizontal line drawn from the top of the wethers, and another at the bottom of the feet, and vertical lines from the front and rear. If this square. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Martin, George A. , d. 1904. New York : Orange Judd Company


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