. The breeds, management. Fig. 4. Fiff. 5. Sheep have no teeth in the upper jaw, but the bars orridges of the palate thicken, as they approach the fore partof the mouth ; there, also, the dense, fibrous, elastic mat-ter, of which they are constituted, becomes condensed, andforms a cushion or bed, that covers the converse extremityof the upper jaw, and occupies the place of the upper inci-sor, or cutting-teeth, and partially discharges their func-tions. The herbage is firmty held between the front teethin the lower jaw and this pad, and thus partly bitten andpartly torn off. The rolling motion
. The breeds, management. Fig. 4. Fiff. 5. Sheep have no teeth in the upper jaw, but the bars orridges of the palate thicken, as they approach the fore partof the mouth ; there, also, the dense, fibrous, elastic mat-ter, of which they are constituted, becomes condensed, andforms a cushion or bed, that covers the converse extremityof the upper jaw, and occupies the place of the upper inci-sor, or cutting-teeth, and partially discharges their func-tions. The herbage is firmty held between the front teethin the lower jaw and this pad, and thus partly bitten andpartly torn off. The rolling motion of the head is proof ofthis fact. The teeth of the sheep are the same in numberas in the mouth of the ox. There are eight incisor, or cut-ting-teeth, in the fore part of the lower jaw, and six molarteeth in each jaw above and below, and on either side.—The incisors are more admirably adapted for grazing thanin the ox. The sheep bites closer and gathers nourish-ment where the ox would be unable to crop a singleblade. The
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