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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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he muscles may be studied, and from this we may easily understand theminute but important action of the several parts as a whole. While theordinary observer will be altogether misled, in estimating the value of ananimal from his outward appearance and movements, he who hascarefully studied the physical proportions with the eye of a care-ful anatomist will quickly and accurately understand the true valueof the animal from the relation of the several parts one with another.For these habits of accurate observation will readily detect, in theiiving horse, the true character of the bony structure, and especiallyof the muscular system, which covers and envelops it. In ordeito make the bony structure plain to the reader it is here shown by 63 u CTCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK 420) COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. diagrams or object lessons, since this is the most graphic, and atthe same time the most accurate, metliod of presenting informationof tm& kind. To make our object lesson still more easy we give
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m the engraving, not only the fi-arae-work. but this resting on or shownagainst a back ground illustrating the outer form and contour of thehorse. THE ANATOMY OF THE HORSE. 55 The skeleton, as shown in the engraving, may be divided as follows:1—Cranium, or Head. 2—Cervical vertebrae, or bones of the neck.3—Dorsal vertebroe, or bones of the withers and back. 4—Lumbalvertebrae, or those of the loin between the false ribs and the upper edgeof the Haunch Bone. 5—Sacral vertebrae, or those of the rump, orlying between the haunch bone and tail. 6—Caudal vertebrae, or bonesof the tail. An observation of the dotted lines will show these correctly.7—The Ribs, showing their coiTect position. 8—Sternum, or the breastbone. 9—Scapula, or shoulder bone. 10—The front limbs. 11—ThePelvis, the cavity of the body formed by the union of the haunch boneswith those of the back and hip, and formed by the Sacrum at the top,the Ilium at the sides, the Ischium and the Pubis at the bottom

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