The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . TORY OF THE HORSE. 101 the disappearance of windgalls, spavins, and tumors of everykind. Horses kindly and not prematurely used, sometimes live tobetween thirty-five and forty-five years of age; and a wellauthenticated account is given of a barge horse that died inhis sixty-second year. Under this head of age, nothing beyond the cut of the com-plete aged mouth, with the accompanying description of it,would h
The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . TORY OF THE HORSE. 101 the disappearance of windgalls, spavins, and tumors of everykind. Horses kindly and not prematurely used, sometimes live tobetween thirty-five and forty-five years of age; and a wellauthenticated account is given of a barge horse that died inhis sixty-second year. Under this head of age, nothing beyond the cut of the com-plete aged mouth, with the accompanying description of it,would have been here inserted, were it not for the prevalentopinion, inculcated by interested dealers in the United States,that the age of a horse, after eight or nine years, can be ascertainly and as exactly predicated by mouth-mark, and hisexact age guaranteed accordingly, as previously to thatperiod. Summing up all that need be offered on this particular point,we simply say, that if one chooses to buy a horse past markof mouth, he must do so on his own judgment and at his ownrisk ; for to credit any assertions, or to give ear to any horse-dealers opinion on the subject, is sheer ^Relative to Breeding,—a very iraportaotN subject, all will admit—two very common mis-p^takes are made; the first, that mares are bredfrom only because they are useless for work,and consequently have to be turned out to grassfor the season ; the second, that a mare is put to a handsomehorse which may chance to strike the fancy of her owner, withouta jioments consideration on the part of the latter as to how farfeifi particula: mare is suited to that particular horse. The BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT. 103 consequence of the first error is, that the infirmities of the mareare perpetuated in her unfortunate offspring, and thus becomehereditary, to the no small disappointment of the breeder. Inthe second case mentioned, the result is an indescribablemongrel, possessing only a combination of bad qualities
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