The Main Features of Measurements 301 



Near Fore Off Hind Off Fore Near Hind 



3.95 Average 3.95 



3-85 3-82 3.90 



3-85 3-80 



3-85 3-80 



3-70 3-75 



3-85 3-65* 



3-85 3-90 



3-90 

 3-75 

 3-75 

 3.90 



3-75 



3.75 



3.60 



3.90 



3.90 



4-05* 



4-oo 



3-85 



20) 76.65 

 3-80 3.83 



-\- 0.03 or 0.36 in. 



The asterisks in this and the preceding table are meant to call at- 

 tention to the lack or the exc'ess of such distances, showing that they 

 are not always the same. As before mentioned, the average of each 

 total is the only reliable test as to any deficiencies. 



From these tables we are, therefore, able to judge of the ex- 

 tensions of the four moving feet. The small difference in the two 

 diagonal distances being only 0.36 in., becomes negligible in the estimate 

 of the gait; that is to say, when the greater extensions of two cor- 

 related feet are not excessive and nearly the same (0.16 and 0.19), the 

 gait of the horse so examined is practically a square one. If the time 

 or labor of the calculations from the continuous measurements is con- 

 fined only to the first table, namely, that of the extensions of the fore 

 and of the hind with reference to their opposite mates, it would almost 



