68 HOW TO JUDGE A HORSE. 



weak parts for thickening of the skin, white hairs 

 or a scar, indicating blistering or the hot iron. 

 Finding the least thing, the proof is established that 

 the respective part has succumbed under the exer- 

 tion, and that the next exertion will result in the 

 reappearance of the cured blemish. 



The great advantage to the dealer, in selling 

 green and young horses, is that work has not 

 marked as yet the defective and weak parts with 

 blemishes on the bones. 



When the number of connoisseurs has so much 

 increased that a four-year-old, clean-legged horse 

 of faulty structure, would bring a far inferior price 

 than an eight-year-old of good formation, even if 

 affected with some casual blemishes, (a natural 

 result of work); only then, when the breeder would 

 find it impossible to dispose of those worthless 

 creatures which are ruined after a two years use, 

 and, if this sort would no longer pay the cost of 

 rearing them, then such mares would no longer be 

 used for breeding purposes, which being cripples 

 themselves can bear nothing but cripples, and no 

 stallions would be employed whose faulty and com- 

 mon structure must spoil the following generations. 



