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sew them up unless absolutely necessary, as the 
process of healing commences or should commence 
at the bottom of the wound. 
Dentition in Horses 
Much the best work for practical purposes 
that I know of on this subject is that by Mr. 
Sidney Galvayne, published by Murray and Son, 
68 Buchanan Street, Glasgow. When Professor 
Galvayne was in this country he taught me more on 
this and other subjects in a couple of hours than I 
had learnt in ten years. To him and his works I 
would refer my readers for a simple and practically 
infallible method of telling the age of horses up to 
30—as to describe his methods would in equity if 
not in fact be to infringe his “patent” and rights. 
The ordinary methods of reading the marks are so 
well known by every horse-owner that it would be 
idle for me to set them forth here, and if any reader 
is ignorant of this art he will learn more in one 
practical object-lesson from one who knows than 
from any amount of reading or looking at book 
plates. , 
FAIRS, ADDRESSES OF BREEDERS 
Every good agricultural almanac publishes a list of 
the Fairs held in the United Kingdom, the addresses 
of Breeders of Horses, and a list of the various Horse 
Shows. 
