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the height, of the animal. All these ratios change as time goes on. 

 The ratio of length to height increases, at first considerably, for the 

 legs seem disproportionately long at birth in the ox, as in other 



Relations between the weight and certain linear dimensions of the ox 



ungulate animals; but this ratio reaches its maximum and falls off 

 a little during the third year : so indicating that the beast is growing 

 more in height than length, at a time when growth in both 



* Ch. Cornevin, ^^tudes sur la croissanee, Arch, de Physiol, norm, et pathol. (5), iv, 

 p. 477, 1892. Cf. also R. Gartner, Ueber das W'achstum d. Tiere, Landxvirtsch. 

 Jahresher. lvii, p. 707, 1922. 



