The family horse : its stabling, care and feedingA practical manual for horse-keepers . Fig. 15.—STRAIGHT HOOF. Fig. 16.—KNEE-SPRUNG. ing appearance. It has a prominent eye, wide forehead, broadjowls, fine muzzle, and nicely-shaped ears. Feet and Legs.—But the points in a horse upon which every-thing else literally rests, are good feet and legs. Without them, thebest breeding, the most perfectly formed head and body, are of noavail. The illustrations, figs. 11 to 23, after drawings by H. M. Hari-mann, show the right and wrong kinds of legs and feet. Figure 11shows the horse from a side view. T
The family horse : its stabling, care and feedingA practical manual for horse-keepers . Fig. 15.—STRAIGHT HOOF. Fig. 16.—KNEE-SPRUNG. ing appearance. It has a prominent eye, wide forehead, broadjowls, fine muzzle, and nicely-shaped ears. Feet and Legs.—But the points in a horse upon which every-thing else literally rests, are good feet and legs. Without them, thebest breeding, the most perfectly formed head and body, are of noavail. The illustrations, figs. 11 to 23, after drawings by H. M. Hari-mann, show the right and wrong kinds of legs and feet. Figure 11shows the horse from a side view. The legs and body of a horse ofaverage normal shape just fill a square, formed by a horizontal linedrawn from the top of the wethers, and another at the bottom ofthe feet, and vertical lines from the front and rear. If this square SELECTING THE HORSE. 17 is divided into three equal parts by vertical lines, one of them willfall at the point of the shoulder-blade, and the other at the point ofthe hips. The dotted lines show that the fore-feet stand directlyunder the joints of the
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