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recreation, and a locality where there are two -minute 

 horses and no Sabbath. 



Fig. 84 represents the exact shape of the foot of a 

 four -year -old three -fourths blood Percheron mare, 

 weighing 1,450 

 pounds. A mat- 

 rix of the foot 

 was formed of 

 clay, and the 

 drawing was 

 made from it. It 

 is a fine foot for 

 a draft - horse ; 

 the frog is rea- 

 sonably high 

 and the heel 

 only moderately 

 wide. The shoe 

 measures seven 

 inches from toe 

 to heel, and is 

 six and one-half 

 inches wide, and embraces an area of a trifle more than 

 thirty -seven square inches. Fig. 85, from a photograph, 

 is a front view of both feet. 



Fig. 86 was also drawn from a clay impression. 

 This fore foot is most excellent in shape, and represents 

 that of a mare sired by a trotting stallion out of a fair- 

 sized active farm -mare. The heel is proportionately 

 narrower than that shown in Fig. 84, and the foot is 

 more rotund and is almost an ideal foot. The shoe is 



FIG. 84. A foot that will last through life 



