EXTERNAL FORM. 



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he is to be applied. In all cases, then, of animals to be fat- 

 tened, we desire that the trunk shall be large in proportion 

 to the limbs, or, in other words, that the limbs shall be short 

 in proportion to the trunk, 



In the Horse, we cultivate the characters of form which in- 

 dicate the power of active movements of the body. In ani- 

 mals which we design to rear up to the earliest possible ma- 

 turity of muscle and fatness, we desire no other power of 

 active motion than consists with the means of procuring their 

 own food ; and when the state in which we keep them is per- 

 fectly artificial, so that food is supplied to them in unlimited 

 quantity, we cultivate characters entirely the opposite of 

 those which indicate activity. 



Of the animals reared in this manner for human food, the 

 Ox is one whose form has, in this country, been brought to 

 great perfection with relation to his power of arriving at 

 early maturity, and becoming soon fat. 



The Ox differs essentially from the Horse in his internal 

 conformation and exterior form. Being of the class of Ru- 

 minants, his body is largely extended in the abdominal re- 

 gion, and the form and capacity of his chest are modified in 

 a corresponding degree. While the Horse stands within a 

 square, of which his body occupies about one-half, the Ox 

 stands within a rectangle, of which his body occupies a larger 

 proportion than the half, as in the following figure, which is 

 the outline of a Galloway Heifer. 



Fig. 10. 



