. Manual of farm animals; a practical guide to the choosing, breeding, and keep of horses, cattle, sheep, and swine. Animal industry; Horses; Cattle; Sheep; Swine. CHOOSING A HORSS la are large, blunt, and round. The nippers may have grown out so long as to prevent the grinders from meeting, in which case a horse will spit out his food after masticating a part of it. If the nippers are rasped off, the grinders will meet, and the horse's life will be somewhat pro- longed. Irregularities in the teeth. — It often happens that the teeth are not regular, in which case the horse is said to have a fa
. Manual of farm animals; a practical guide to the choosing, breeding, and keep of horses, cattle, sheep, and swine. Animal industry; Horses; Cattle; Sheep; Swine. CHOOSING A HORSS la are large, blunt, and round. The nippers may have grown out so long as to prevent the grinders from meeting, in which case a horse will spit out his food after masticating a part of it. If the nippers are rasped off, the grinders will meet, and the horse's life will be somewhat pro- longed. Irregularities in the teeth. — It often happens that the teeth are not regular, in which case the horse is said to have a false mouth. These irregularities may occur in the number: there may be more or less than the regular number — thirty- six in mares or forty in horses; they may occur in the form of the teeth or tlie uniting of two teeth; they may occur because one jaw happens to be longer or shorter than the other; they may come as the result of cribbing, some horses have the bad habit of biting the stall fixtures or other surrounding objects, thus break- ing off the free borders of the teeth, which make the teeth irregular and which must not be confused with normal wear. Such cases can usu- ally be recognized by the broken-off particles and the roughed surface. Irregularities may result from the employment of fraudulent means, the horseman striving to give the. Fig. 15. — Side View of a Twenty- one-yeah-old MoDTH. Note the sharp angle at which the teeth Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harper, Merritt Wesley, 1877-. New York, The Macmillan company
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