Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . Fig. 387.—At EigtilYears. Fig. 388.—About Eight Years. tricks and methods of telling age after eight years oldhave been shown the writer atvarious times, such as wrinklesabout the eyes, root of thetail, etc., none of which give theidea so correctly as the generaappearance of the teeth and ab-sorption of the jaws. In young UOW TO TELL THE AGE. 127. Fig. 389.—Abcul Six Years Old. horses the edge of the lower jaw is round and full ; as the horsebecomes older, this edge becomes s
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . Fig. 387.—At EigtilYears. Fig. 388.—About Eight Years. tricks and methods of telling age after eight years oldhave been shown the writer atvarious times, such as wrinklesabout the eyes, root of thetail, etc., none of which give theidea so correctly as the generaappearance of the teeth and ab-sorption of the jaws. In young UOW TO TELL THE AGE. 127. Fig. 389.—Abcul Six Years Old. horses the edge of the lower jaw is round and full ; as the horsebecomes older, this edge becomes sharper and thinner. The most unique trick shown thewriter of telling the age was the fol-lowing :— If a gold ring be attached to a hairpulled from the tail or mane of ahorse, and suspended directly abovehis head between his ears, it willoscillate, like a pendulum, just thenumber of times the horse is yearsold, then stop and repeat. I haverepeatedly made the experiment,and it certainly seemed to repeatthe age of the horse ; but I could not feel satisfied that the motion of the ring was not in agreat measure controlledby the involuntary move-ment of the hand. Theman who gave the ideamade the experiment inthe presence of the writer,with apparent success. Jockeys frequently re-sort to cutting down theteeth of aged horses, soas to simulate as much aspossible the appearanceof the mouth at eight or nine years of age. This was formerlydone by sawing or filing,
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