(J3 AGE OF THE HORSE. 



measuring with the eye. This being so far as we propose to 

 teach, scientifically, the horse's age, the reader, by a close 

 examination of horses' mouths that he knows the age of positively, 

 and comparing them with the above rules, will soon be able to 

 tell correctly the age of any horse from the time he is foaled to 

 twenty-one years. 



We have endeavored, in the above instructions, to give in plain 

 language the simplest, yet the most scientific method of telling 

 the horse's age known. 



In order to still further explain the anatomical and physiologi- 

 cal structure of the teeth, we will refer the reader to the follow- 

 ing illustrations : 



No. 16. 

 Teeth as they are located in the jaw. 



Cut 16 represents the way and manner in which the teeth are 

 located in the jaw of the horse. The roots, as they are 

 commonly called, are narrow at the ends, while the crown 

 of the tooth is much wider. The dotted line, from D to E, 

 represents that portion of the tooth which extends above the 

 gums, and the lower parts are buried beneath the gums in the 

 jawbone. K K represent the tusks or hook teeth, commonly 

 called bridle teeth, just about to cut through the gums, and 



