18 THE NEW POCKET FARRIER. 



which is to make the horse foam from time to time, after 

 having rubbed his mouth, lips, and gums with salt, and 

 the crumb of bread dried and powdered with salt. This 

 foam hides the circle made by the iron. 



Another thing they cannot do, is, to counterfeit young 

 tusks, it being out of their power to make those two 

 crannies above mentioned, which are given by nature. 

 With files they may make them sharper or flatter, but 

 then they take away the shining natural enamel, so that 

 one may always know, by these tusks, horses that are 

 past seven, till they come to twelve or thirteen. 



[from the AMERICAN FARMER.] 



AGE BY FEELING. 



A wonderful discovery recently made in an old Horse^s age I! 



Since the age of that noble animal, the horse, after a 

 certain period of life, (that is to say) after the marks in 

 his incisors and cuspidati are entirely obliterated, to be 

 able to ascertain his age, with any tolerable degree of 

 certainty, appears to the generality of " horse age 

 Judges,"" to be a subject of very much uncertainty, I 

 now take the liberty of laying before*the public, through 

 the mediunn of your paper, an infallible method (subject 

 to very few exceptions) of ascertaining it in such a man- 

 ner, after a horse loses his marks, or after he arrives to 

 the age of nine years or over ; so that any person con- 

 cerned in horses, even of the meanest capacity, may not 

 be imposed upon in a horse's age, from nine years of 

 age and over, more than three years at farthest, until 

 the animal arrives at the age of twenty years and up- 

 wards, by Just feeling the submaxillary bone, or the 

 bone of the lower Jaw, 



