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ON THE HORSE. 485

The AcE of a horse, is well known to be indi- cated by a cavity in the corner-teeth, bearing a

reals black spot or mark, like the eye Of a bean, which

of a appears at four years and halt old, and vanishes ai

ay seven years and half, the cavity being then filled oe up, and the horse’s age no longer determinable HOT Sait with certainty. The horse has forty teeth; twen- fg TAO ty-four double-teeth, or grinders, twelve front- Just de- teeth, or gatherers, and four tushes, or single teeth.

nter, oF Mares seldom have any tushes..The colt, or the| d chap-‘uvenile teeth, are short, round, and white, making; succeed their appearance in a few weeks, and-at a period H

caer are

fashion. between two and three years old, begin to fall, and

7 some to be replaced by horses teeth, with which the i e toa mouth of the animal is completely filled at five H room years of age. 4 et on; To treat much at large on the subject of the, rnty of horse, a very extensive one, will not be expected i show!“1 a work of this kind; the few general ideas; 2 he bar- already detailed, it is hoped, will suffice; to which, if. hut the Y must beg permission to add, that men are some-

times in the habit of making great mistakes, as to the

] Sips Nl Livees value of animals of this species, which they have

it, In- prof bred; at one while asking a considerable price for nate little or no merit, at another, selling a valuable and lin oy= f marketable nag for a mere trife. I would recom- tat has mend to all such, and indeed to all breeders, to Nat Mas; é shiek provide themselves with a good general modern known ogee? o ahaa) Treatise on Horses. piece 0! ] i} Taughes tain, ti! | pone et eth NEAT ep seelly The