. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. -At Eight now TO TELL THE A 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 exper
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. -At Eight now TO TELL THE A 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 fee. Fig. 389—About Six Years Old.
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