uneven ; carrying his head to one side ; balling the 

 food between the molars and cheek; lug on the 

 lines; failing appetite and consequently a fallings 

 off in condition, and making a hide-bound plug^ 

 out of your horse ; causing colic and other diseas- 

 es of the system on account of not masticating the 

 food properly, and also causing the horse to fight 

 the bit when being placed into his mouth, and 

 sometimes strike viciously with his front legs. 



When the above symptoms are present, you 

 should not fail to make a careful examination of 

 the mouth by passing your hand into the mouth 

 and feeling for the sharp edges, split and decayed 

 molars, long projecting teeth, wolf teeth, and also 

 examine the canine teeth to see if there is any 

 tartar accumulating around them. There are a 

 great many people who will give their horses con- 

 dition powders when they are in thin flesh, hide- 

 bound, and so on, thinking that it will put flesh 

 upon them and bring their horses around in bet- 

 ter condition, when in fact the sole cause is with 

 the teeth. The teeth should be floated, filed or 

 trimmed at least once a year after the animal be- 

 comes five years old, and the mouth carefully ex- 

 amined at all times for defects in the teeth. Take 

 care of the horse's teeth and the teeth will take 

 care of the system by masticating the food prop- 

 erly. I believe the teeth should be taken care of" 

 by a first-class veterinarian, the same as the 

 hoofs are shod and taken care of by your black- 

 smith. You will thereby not only be doing justice 

 to your horse, but you will as well be doing justice 

 to yourself, by saving large feed bills, different 

 kinds of condition powders, and last, but not 

 least, the saving of the life of your horse. 



In giving my exhibitions throughout the 

 country, I have found that the majority of balky 



