Niagara County is in the extreme western part of New York State, just north of Buffalo and adjacent to Lake Ontario on its northern border and the Niagara River and Canada on its western border.
A foot candle is a measure of luminance or light intensity. It is an imperial measurement unit, unlike the more common lux, which is based on the International System of Units (SI) or metric system. Foot candles are mainly used in film and photography, but can also be used in gardening. One foot candle is the amount of illumination received on an area of a surface that is a sphere with a one foot radius, cast by a light source with an intensity of one candela.
A horse is measured from the ground to the top of the highest non-variable point of the skeleton, the withers. For official measurement, the spinous process of the fifth thoracic vertebra may be identified by palpation, and marked if necessary.