AGE OF THE HORSE. Q\ 



the crown, so as to fill up all the vacancy caused by the colt teeth 

 "shedding out/' the colt will then be three years old. At this 

 time the colt will have four horse teeth and eight colt teeth. In 

 other words, the nippers above and below will be horse teeth, 

 while the middle and corner teeth above and below will be colt 

 teeth. 



No. 7. 

 Inside view of the lower jaw, three years and a half old. 

 The way we distinguish the horse teeth from the colt teeth, is 

 by the horse teeth having a groove running down the centre of 

 the tooth from the crown to the gum on the outside surface, 

 while the colt teeth are smooth on the outside surface, resembling 

 your finger-nail, as shown in Cut No. 1. 



Cut No. 7 represents the lower jaw of a colt three years and a 

 half old. 



The colt teeth, called f < middle," are gone, and the horse teeth 

 have cut through the gums. At four years old, these horse teeth, 

 called " middle," shall have filled up all the vacancy, and be perfectly 

 straight across the crown. Then the colt will show four horse 

 teeth on the lower and four on the upper jaw, with only four colt 

 teeth remaining, namely, the four « corner " teeth. When the 

 colt is four years old, it will be seen, by a close examination of the 

 colt's mouth, that he will have eight horse teeth and four colt 

 teeth ; the four nippers and four middle will be horse teeth, show- 



