. Types and market classes of live stock. of the frog, contraction or displace-ment of the heels. The lateral cartilages should yield readilyto finger pressure. Some horsemen object to a white hoof,believing it to be less durable, but a white hoof is as goodas a dark-colored one. Horn of good quality is fine grainedand tough, while poor horn is coarse grained and either toomellow and friable or hard and brittle. CHAPTER XXVI. SOME IMPORTANT FACTS CONCERNING THE HORSE. Base of support.—The horses legs are his base of sup-port, just as the table legs support the table. The longer thelegs, the le
. Types and market classes of live stock. of the frog, contraction or displace-ment of the heels. The lateral cartilages should yield readilyto finger pressure. Some horsemen object to a white hoof,believing it to be less durable, but a white hoof is as goodas a dark-colored one. Horn of good quality is fine grainedand tough, while poor horn is coarse grained and either toomellow and friable or hard and brittle. CHAPTER XXVI. SOME IMPORTANT FACTS CONCERNING THE HORSE. Base of support.—The horses legs are his base of sup-port, just as the table legs support the table. The longer thelegs, the less stable the base of support. The smaller thebase of support, the less stable it will be. The less stable thebase of support, the greater the speed of the horse; while thegreater the stability, the greater the power for draft. Thebase of support of any object will be most stable when itcomes directly beneath the center of weight. In horses thecenter of weight is far forward, lying immediately behind •vertebrol spine 5u5pen(lin3musdc. SCftpulor coi^viWjes scopula Fig. 86. -lon<^ pastern-short pastern • Collin Done Attachment of Fore Leg to Body. Cross section through chest, showing the bones of the fore leg andthe muscular attachment of leg to body. From Axes The Horse. the shoulders. Thus the fore limbs support much more ofthe weight of the horse than do the hind limbs, in fact it isthe function of the forequarters to support, and of the hind-quarters to propel. This is the more clearly shown when we ,^15 316 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock examine the anatomy of the horse, for we find that the hindlegs are attached to the trunk by the strong ball-and-socketjoint, while the fore limbs are not directly attached to thetrunk but are connected by intervening muscles which forma sort of sling which suspends the body between the two forelegs. The muscle attaching the fore limb to the trunk iscalled the serratus magnus. It is an enormous triangularmuscle which origina
Size: 1097px × 2279px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidtypesmarketclass01vaug
