. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . 668 HOW TO TELL THE When the horse, without any apparent cause, is runningdown, munching or eating his food but slowly, especially if thex-eis any lateral action of the jaw, examine the mouth carefully to see whether there is anynoticeable cause of troublein the teeth. If roughand irregular, they shouldbe rasped down. Themethod of doing this isnow so well understood asto scarcely need explana-tion. The rasping down of allirregularities should beFig. 330.—At 14 years old. carefully done, and if there is a decayed tooth it shouldbe removed b
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . 668 HOW TO TELL THE When the horse, without any apparent cause, is runningdown, munching or eating his food but slowly, especially if thex-eis any lateral action of the jaw, examine the mouth carefully to see whether there is anynoticeable cause of troublein the teeth. If roughand irregular, they shouldbe rasped down. Themethod of doing this isnow so well understood asto scarcely need explana-tion. The rasping down of allirregularities should beFig. 330.—At 14 years old. carefully done, and if there is a decayed tooth it shouldbe removed by a veterinarysurgeon who is conversantwith the simplest and bestmethod of doing it. Thereare now regular horse den-testry implements in gen-eral use for this purpose,which can be easily ob-tained. If the tooth has grown down beyond the 1 1 p ,^ • 1 1 11 Fig. 331.—At 16 yeai-s old. level oi the others, it should be rasped or sawed off tothe proper dimensions,and carefully watched af-terward so as to removeany undue growth harm-ful to the opposing ther
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