MISCELLANEOUS IXFORMATiOX. • 673 



At Pve, the mouth is perfect, the sccoikI set of teetli having 

 been c^'inpleted. 



At s-jc, the noUow under the upper, called the mark, has disap- 

 peared iVom tne nippers, and diminished in the dividers. 



At s-cven, tne mark has disappeared from the dividers, and the 

 next tettn or corners are level, though showing the mark. 



At eigdt, the mark has gone from the corners, and the horse is 

 said to bo aged. After this time — indeed good authorities say 

 that aftei Ave ,years — the age of the horse can only be conjec- 

 tured. Bai, the teeth gradually change their form, the incisors 

 becoming loand, oval, and triangular. 



How TO ViT Collars to Houses' Shoulders. — It is very im- 

 portant to have a collar fit nicely and snugly to the shoulders of 

 the horse. It enables him to work with a great deal more ease, 

 and to apply a great deal more strength. It prevents -galling 

 and wounding, as the friction is avoided. Collars are so made, 

 or should be so made, as to throw the chief force on tlie lower 

 part of the shoulder. The horse can apply but little strength on 

 the upper part, and for this reason breast collars are coming 

 greatly into vogue — as the strength is exerted on the lower part 

 of the shoulder. But we started oat to tell our readers how to 

 make a new collar fit the shoulder of the horse. The collar should 

 be purchased of the proper size; just before putting it on the 

 first time, immerse it in water, letting it remain about a minute, 

 and immediately putting it on the horse, being careful to have 

 the hames so adjusted at top and bottom as to fit the sho\ilder, 

 and then pufthe horse to work. The. collar, by being wet, will 

 adapt itself to the shoulder, and should dry on the horse. "When 

 taken off it should be left in the same shape it occui)ied on the 

 horse, and ever after you will have a snug fitting collar and no 

 wounds. — Valley Farmer. 



Devon Cow^s — Butter Making. — We have said elsewhere that 

 the Devons are not a dairy breed, but that they sometimes make 

 excellent dairy stock is proved by the following: D. H. Prest, of 

 Ontario, having seen Mrs. Cragg's statement about her butter pro- 

 duct in the " Rural,''^ sends a communication giving his experi- 

 ence in butter making. Four 3-ears ago, having purchased a 

 Devon cow, it was resolved to test the value of the purchase by 

 keeping an account of the butter made from her milk. The first 

 week's cream was churned hy itself, and produced fourteen 

 pounds of butter. The milk stood from morning till night, ajid 

 from night till morning, and was skimmed and fed to the calf 

 before it got sour. That calf, when a heifer two years old, was 

 milked separately' like the dam, and produced in a week ten and 

 three-quarter pounds of excellent butter. Another heifer, from the 

 same mother as the last, came in also at two years old, and in the 

 second week in March produced ten and eleven-sixteenths pounds 



