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rary teeth arrived, to be passed over in silence. The 

 molars are more important to the welfare of the 

 animal than the incisors can be supposed to be. If 

 the front teeth are irregular, the horse, nevertheless, 

 can manage to feed ; and if some are even wanting, 

 the animal can subsist. A few would serve to grasp 

 a sufficiency of food, especially such food as the 

 state of the mouth, during the period of dentition, 

 would dispose the colt to partake of. The animal is 

 then in an imflammatory condition — the system is 

 excited — and it is a wise provision which leaves the 

 creature inclined only, at such a time, to consume a 

 soft and laxative herbage, not in too great a quantity. 

 The molars, on the contrary, if irregular in their 

 growth, or uneven upon their surfaces for any 

 lengthened period, would produce great local pain, 

 and much constitutional disturbance. The food, in 

 consequence of the rugged condition of these teeth, 

 would be imperfectly masticated, the organs of di- 

 gestion would become impaired, and the whole frame 

 would suffer. To prevent this, the molars are fully cut 

 before the temporary tables are cast off, nor do both 

 the tables leave the mouth at the same time. The 

 one on the upper jaw is first shed, and it is not until 



