LECTURES ON HORSES. 
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long-legged, ill-proportioned animal, with good courage and very 
good carriage of himself, and for this latter reason proved a plea- 
sant horse to ride, though by no means a strong one. In regard to 
the quantum of growth likely to be made after the respective ages 
of 2, 3, and 4, on the average, one inch appears by the table to 
have been acquired after the second year, Jd of an inch after the 
third year, and Jd after the fourth year. 
I submit these calculations with considerable diffidence, on 
account of the limitedness of the records from which I have — in 
the absence of more — been forced to take them. In its present 
imperfect state the table may serve as a sort of guide for rough 
calculations, and to direct us in future inquiries. 
A Table, 
Shewing the relative Growths 255 Horses have made at 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 
and 7 Years of Age. 
Number 
of Horses 
2 Years 
Old. 
Increase of 
Growth. 
Number 
of Horses 
3 Years 
Old. 
1 i 
Increase of 
Growth. 
Number 
of Horses 
4 Years 
Old. 
Increase of 
Growth. 
Number 
of Horses 
5 Years 
Old. 
Increase of 
f Growth. 
INCHES. 
INCHES. 
INCHES. 
INCHES. 
1 
8* 
1 
5J 
2 
3 
2 
2 
1 
5 
2 
H 
1 
n 
1 
11 
1 
4 
1 
4 
4 
1 
li 
3 
3i 
3 
3* 
3 
n 
2 
1 
1 
3 
1 
j s* 
2 
2 
3 
i 
1 
2| 
5 
3 
1 
If 
2 
None. 
2 
4 
2| 
5 
I 2 
11 
«JL 
3 
2 
5 
2* 
3 
li 
°2 
2 
11 
2 
2* 
8 
1 
Number of 
Increase 
3 
H 
7 
2 
3 
| 
Horses 
of 
6 Years Old. 
Growth. 
6 
1 
8 
If 
13 
h 
3 
1 
10 
n 
6 
k 
INCHES. 
2 
* 
11 
n 
7 
None. 
1 
4 
i 
27 
i 
— 
— 
3 
1 
2 
None. 
11 
t 


1 
t 
_ _ 
17 
i 
— 
— 
2 
2 
— 
— 
11 
4 
— 
— 
7 
4f 
— 
— 
17 
None. 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
_ „ 
— 
— 
Number of 
Increase 
Horses 
of 
“ 
7 Years Old. 
Growth. 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
INCH 
35 
36J 
144 
40f 
48 
19J 
1 
4 
