264 MANAGEMENT OF THE COW TEETH HORNS. 



in the cheese, as well as the butter dairy. The five 

 principal cheese dairy districts of England are those 

 of CHESHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, WILTS, DERBY, 

 and WARWICKSHIRE. 



Management of the Cow. 



The AGE of neat cattle is determinable by the teeth 

 and horns. They as well as sheep, are destitute of 

 teeth in the upper jaw ; but the mark of age, as in 

 the horse, is to be found in the corner incisory 

 teeth of the lower jaw. The first front teeth, or 

 calves' teeth, remarkable for their whiteness, are 

 shed at two years old, and replaced by others not so 

 white. Every succeeding year, two other calves' 

 teeth, next to the front, are also replaced; and at 

 five years old, the incisory or cutting teeth being 

 all renewed, are of good length, whitish and even, 

 and the beast is full mouthed. From that period, 

 as in the horse, the teeth are gradually filling up, 

 until six years, when the mark is complete. The 

 teeth afterwards become discoloured by age, some- 

 times long and irregular. 



" The HORNS, at three years of age, are shed and 

 replaced by others, which continue." This unaccount- 

 able absurdity ought to have been expunged and its 

 cause explained, long since. I believe also that I 

 have unreflectingly repeated it elsewhere, having im- 

 plicitly adopted it on ancient authority. I did not 

 reflect, at the moment, on the immense quantity of 

 horns I must have annually witnessed in our pas- 

 tures, had cattle and sheep periodically cast them. In 



