. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book VII. ORGANOLOGY OF THE HORSE. 957 fiSGO. The teeth (Jig. 829.), which present themselves on the lower parts of the j
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book VII. ORGANOLOGY OF THE HORSE. 957 fiSGO. The teeth (Jig. 829.), which present themselves on the lower parts of the jaws, are the incisive and canine. The two front incisives are popularly called nippers or gatherers (a); the two next adjoining, separators or middle teeth (6); and the outer, the corners (c) ; but it would be more definite to say the first, second, and third incisives, beginning at the corner. The tusks or tushes (rfrf) occupy part of the intermediate space between the incisive and grinding teeth. The teeth, as criteria of age, will be considered in another place, and as organs of mastication, they will be further noticed in the anatomical detail. 6261. T/ie organs of the neck. The exterior parts which compose the neck are first the upper surface, which is furnished throughout its whole extent with an elegant assemblage of hair called mane (fig. 828. e e). In some instances, as in stallions, it is of enormous length and thickness. In horses it is commonly black, but in horses of colours approaching to a light hue the reverse is frequently seen, and the mane and tail are in these often lighter than the body. 6262. To make the hairs of the mane and tail lie smooth is an object with most horsemen, but the pulling the hair out in tufts by wrapping it round the fingers is a most erroneous practice, and not only at the time frustrates the end intended, but a mane so pulled will seldom hang well after. The writer of this has alwaj's made use of a three-pronged angular
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