The American reformed horse book, a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America, also breeding, rearing, and management . he apex, leaving a triangulareminence between them. The sharpness of the apex, the degreeof curvature, and the distinctness of the furrows are good crite-rions of youth; for, as the animal advances in years, the tushes 132 DADDS VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGEU7. become blunt, less angular, and more rounded, and the furrowshave disappeared. Supposing that the tushes are not completelyevolved until th
The American reformed horse book, a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America, also breeding, rearing, and management . he apex, leaving a triangulareminence between them. The sharpness of the apex, the degreeof curvature, and the distinctness of the furrows are good crite-rions of youth; for, as the animal advances in years, the tushes 132 DADDS VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGEU7. become blunt, less angular, and more rounded, and the furrowshave disappeared. Supposing that the tushes are not completelyevolved until the age oi five; in the sixth year the apex of thecone is worn some; in the seventh the furrows grow shallow; inthe eighth vear they are obliterated, after which period the apexgraduallv wears away, and the body of the same becomes roundedand i)ointed, or blunt, according to circumstances. Aside fromthe teeth, an aged horse may be known by the de^p pits above theorbital processes; the sunken eye ; by the promin:uce of the jointaand loss of plumpness in the muscles; the lips an? somewhat pen-dulous; the withers sharp; the back becomes an bed; the teethare lengthened, and become yellow. Fig. A POBTI?^ OP TIIK OHPfiR JAW or OLZ> (1[ HAWK. (Aged twenty-three yean and eight munth^.} The Geindees, or Molaes, afford but very little inforiL*a»»as regards the precise age of a horse. As he advances in yevihowever, the outer edges become sharpened, so that it often Le-oomes necessary to rasp them. As regards their development, \\Ib understood that the foal is born with two upper and Iowagrinders in each jaw. At the end of a month, sometimes more, »third appears. At the completion of the first year, or thereaboutK& fourth grinder in each jaw appears. Thus the yeailing has six-teen grinders. At the age of two, a fifth grinder appears, and atthe age of three the sixth and last appear. It must be rememberedthat cribbers and voracious feeders are apt to deface their teeth,and thus
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