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corner teeth is lost, and now a horse is said to be aged. 

 Total number of teeth 40. Some horses have been 

 known to live to 47 years. 



The following comparison was drawn between the 

 ages of man and horses, by Mr. Blaire. That it is at 

 these several periods of comparison the constitution of 

 man and the horse may be considered as in an equal 

 degree of perfection or decay, according as youth or age 

 preponderate ; thus, the first five years of a horse may 

 be considered as equivalent to the first twenty years of 

 a man, i.e, that a horse of five years may comparatively 

 be considered as old as a man of twenty ; a horse of ten 

 years, as a man of forty ; a horse of fifteen, as a man of 

 fifty ; a horse of twenty, as a man of sixty ; a horse of 

 twenty-five, as a man of seventy ; of thirty, as a man of 

 eighty, and of thirty-five, as a man of ninety. 



SECTION II. 



BREEDING OF HORSES — HOW TO BUY A HORSE — TRAINING OF 

 HORSES — STABLE MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING — DRESSING OR 

 GROOMING — THE FEET — EXERCISE. 



Breeding of Horses. 



From its general magnitude, prevalent fashion, and 

 great utility, is certainly entitled to precede every other 

 subject upon which we shall have occasion to enlarge, 

 and will afford ample opportunity, to introduce such 

 remarks and instructions, as may evidently tend to 

 improve what has now become so universal, that 

 the world at large, either in pleasure, agriculture, or 

 commerce, seems interested in its success. Previous to 

 embarkation in so extensive a field for investigation, it 

 may be applicable to observe, that whatever opinions 

 may be promulgated as matters of recommendation, they 

 are not to be considered the delusive effect of speculative 

 rumination, but the result of long experience and 



