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Firing horses for any enlargement of the limb or any other cause, 

 I consider a brutal treatment, and when left so treated, I consider 

 him unsound. 



Wolf teeth are two small teeth and found on either side of the 

 upper jaw next to the grinders. If they set close to the grindei 

 there is danger of their effecting the eye. They should never be 

 knocked out as is practiced by many, but should be removed by a 

 pair of forceps. They are peculiar to young horses or colts; after 

 they have been abstracted, I consider the horse sound. By a care- 

 ful perusal of what I have said upon the most natural causes that 

 render the horse unsound, and a few suggestions as to the treatment 

 of them, if I have rendered the reader any assistance and saved 

 the noble horse, man's true reliance, any torturous treatment, I am 

 satisfied. 



THK TKBTH. 



A foal at birth has three molars, or grinding teeth, just 

 through the gums, upon both sides of the upper and of the 

 lower jaws. It generally has no incisor or front teeth; but the 

 gums are inflamed and evidently upon the eve of bursting. The 

 molars or grinders are, as yet, unfiattened or have not been 

 rendered smooth by attrition. The lower jaw, when the inferior 

 margin is left, appears to be very thick, blunt and round. 



A fortnight has rarely elapsed before the membrane ruptures 

 and two pairs of front, very white teeth, begin to appear in the 

 mouth. At first these new members look disproportionately 

 large to their tiny abiding place, ai.d when contrasted with the 

 reddened gums at their base, they have that pretty pearly aspect 

 which is the common characteristic of the milk teeth in most 

 animals. 



In another month, when the foal is six weeks old, more teeth 

 appear. Much of the swelling at first present has softened 

 down. The membrane, as time progresses, will lose much of 

 its scarlet hue. In the period which has elapsed since the 



