The horse and other live stock . so that it can be predicated of a horse that he is so old,and no older. This is an absolute fallacy. It is easy, frommany general signs, to see that a horse is above eight yearsold; but it is impossible to judge certainly how much length and angularity of the nippers, the depth of thesuper-orbital cavities, and other points of information, mayenable a good judge to guess comparatively, but never to speaksurely. Dishonest dealers have been said to resort to a method ofprolonging the mark on the lowef nippers. It is called Bish-oping, from the name of t
The horse and other live stock . so that it can be predicated of a horse that he is so old,and no older. This is an absolute fallacy. It is easy, frommany general signs, to see that a horse is above eight yearsold; but it is impossible to judge certainly how much length and angularity of the nippers, the depth of thesuper-orbital cavities, and other points of information, mayenable a good judge to guess comparatively, but never to speaksurely. Dishonest dealers have been said to resort to a method ofprolonging the mark on the lowef nippers. It is called Bish-oping, from the name of the scoundrel who invented it. The horse of eight or nine years old—whose mouth is repre-sented in the accompany-ing cut — is thrown, andwith an engravers tool ahole is dug in the now al-most plain surface of thecorner teeth, in shape re-sembling the mark yet leftEIGHT OB NINE TEARS. In thosc of a scveu-year- old horse. The hole is then burned with a heated iron, anda permanent black stain is left. The next pair of nippers is. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HORSE. 99 sometimes slightly touched. An ignorant man would be veryeasily deceived by this trick ; but the irregular appearance ofthe cavity, the dififusion of the black stain around the tushes,the sharpened edges and concave inner surface of which cannever be given again, the marks on the upper nippers, togetherwith the general conformation of the horse, can never deceivethe careful examiner. Horsemen, after the animal is eight years old, are accustomedto look to the nippers in the upper jaw, and some conclusionhas been drawn from the appearances which they present. Itcannot be doubted that the mark remains in them for someyears after it has been obliterated in the nippers of the lowerjaw. There are various opinions as to the intervals between thedisappearance of the mark from the different cutting teeth ofthe upper jaw. Some have averaged it at two years, others atone. The latter opinion is more commonly adopted by thosemost co
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