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and untrustworthiness are the result either of bad train- 
ing or inheritance. 
11. Beauty.—What makes a horse beautiful? Is it the 
the color of the hair, the shape of the body or the length 
of the head, neck or legs? Too frequently our thoughts 
of beauty and of the beautiful spring from superficial 
conceptions. The word beautiful apphed to the land- 
scape means proper blending of its objects and their 
proper fitness one to the other and in relation to the 
QuleET AND DOCILE, INTELLIGENT AND WILLING 
These draft mares are of improved breeding and have been thoughtfully fed and 
intelligently trained in their service for labor and work. 
whole. In the horse, beauty is significant of the “perfect 
adaptation of the organ to its function, or of the subject 
to the service for which he is destined. Beauty is, there- 
fore, synonymous with fitness.” A beautiful horse is, 
therefore, a good horse—one capable of doing its work 
well and possessed of parts or regions that function in 
the easiest, most graceful and mest efficient manner. 
There are two kinds of beauty: the absolute beauties that are 
necessary in all horses and the relative beauties that apply to horses 
bred to a special work or, service. Among those of the first class 
that all horses should_possess, are big chests, width between the 
