440 THE COMPLETE GRAZIER. BOOK in. 



The dishonest breeder or dealer is more anxious than before to give 

 the appearance of an additional year to the colt, and the same trickery 

 is displayed, with regard to these teeth, as with the central ones in a 

 preceding year. 



During this year also, the four tushes, which are seldom seen in the 



Fig. 98. Incisors and Tushes of Horse at Five Years Old. 



All the teeth shown belong to the second or permanent dentition, the corners being 

 comparatively new, and slightly worn on the anterior edge only. 



mare, although the germs of them are present* begin to protrude ; the 

 lower ones often four months before the upper ones. The two lower 

 tushes (fig. 98) offer the most certain proofs that a horse is coming 

 five years old, notwithstanding his colt's teeth may not be all gone. 



It is not an infrequent practice, in order to make colts appear to 

 be five years old when they are but four, to pull out the last tem- 

 porary incisors; but if all the colt's incisor teeth are gone, and no 



