Handbook of meat inspection . Incisor teeth of a beef animalone yeur Incisor teeth of a heef animalüue and one-half years old. The teeth of old auimals, however, may corae to resemble the milkincisors in poiut of size, and, in fact, tliis similarity lias already givenoccasion in slaughterhouses to errors in judging the age of animalslinder one and one-half and over teu yeais. By making a carefulexamination, however, even of tlie teeth alone, and when the hornsand the condition of tlie syraphyses do not enter into consideration,such mistakes are impossible. For the teeth of such old cattl
Handbook of meat inspection . Incisor teeth of a beef animalone yeur Incisor teeth of a heef animalüue and one-half years old. The teeth of old auimals, however, may corae to resemble the milkincisors in poiut of size, and, in fact, tliis similarity lias already givenoccasion in slaughterhouses to errors in judging the age of animalslinder one and one-half and over teu yeais. By making a carefulexamination, however, even of tlie teeth alone, and when the hornsand the condition of tlie syraphyses do not enter into consideration,such mistakes are impossible. For the teeth of such old cattleproject so far out of the alveoli that a large part of the root isvisible. Furthermore, even if some doubt is still entertained, it iseasy, by exposing the alveoli in the jaw of a slaughtered animal, toconvince ones seif whether the permanent teeth, which have notyet broken through, are present together with the visible incisors. The German Agricultural Society has established the followingrules for the determination of the age of German cattle : RECOGNITION OF AGF AN
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