. The principles and practice of judging live-stock . Livestock. TBE TYPES AND CLASSES 115 long hours of arduous duty. Compactness, the result of a short vertebral column, brings the source of power, the hind- quarter, closer to the point at which the power is applied, the shoulder, thereby mak- ing for strength and rigidity of the shaft and minimizing loss in transmission. Massive is almost synonymous with muscular, and a massive ap- pearance is suggestive of power, as it indicates extreme development of the short, thick, bulky power variety of muscles. The strength of the bone should corresp
. The principles and practice of judging live-stock . Livestock. TBE TYPES AND CLASSES 115 long hours of arduous duty. Compactness, the result of a short vertebral column, brings the source of power, the hind- quarter, closer to the point at which the power is applied, the shoulder, thereby mak- ing for strength and rigidity of the shaft and minimizing loss in transmission. Massive is almost synonymous with muscular, and a massive ap- pearance is suggestive of power, as it indicates extreme development of the short, thick, bulky power variety of muscles. The strength of the bone should correspond to the contracting force of the muscle. The power horse should, therefore, have a framework of heavy but dense, clean bone (Fig. 49). The joint surfaces, also, should be of such area as to withstand the stress of the powerful con- traction of the muscles upon the bones whose ends they oppose. Furthermore, the symmetrical appearance of Fia. 49. —Frontal section of large metatarsal (hind can- non) bone of horse, posterior part. , compact substance; , spongy substance; Cm., medullary cavity; , nutrient foramen. Note the greater thickness of the com- pact substance of the inner and anterior parts of the Digitized by Microsoft®. 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 Gay, Carl Warren, 1877-. New York : Macmillan
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