BREEDING THE TROTTER 



hundred and fifty-two feet four and three-eighths 

 inches apart, connected at each end with a per- 

 fect semi-circle (radius two hundred and twenty- 

 six feet, two and three-sixteenths inches). Place 

 the fence exactly upon a line so formed (which is 

 the inside of the track), and the track will measure 

 exactly half a mile three feet from the inside fence, 

 to be placed according to the width of the track 

 desired. Thirteen acres will be required for a 

 half-mile track thirty feet wide, fifteen acres for 

 a half-mile track sixty feet wide. 



If not convenient to obtain an engineer to run 

 the curve, it can be done as follows : Place a 

 stake midway between the parallel straight lines 

 at each end ; take a wire with the loop at the end, 

 loose enough to turn upon the stake, and measure 

 upon this wire two hundred and thirty-six feet 

 two and three sixteenths inches (the radius of the 

 curve), which from the centre stake will exactly 

 reach the ends of the straight lines ; then describe 

 a semi-circle, beginning at the end of one side, 



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