1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
7) 5 
A PLAIN TALK TO HORSE OWNERS 
ABOUT HORSES' TEETH. 
PART II. 
The principal operations are filing, 
rasping or “floating” the sharp inside 
edges of lower and outside edges of up¬ 
per grinders; resecting abnormally long 
molars to proper length. There is no 
suffering thus inflicted on the horse, and 
no after treatment required. Extracting 
decayed, split and otherwise diseased 
teeth. Extracting supernumerary mo¬ 
lars, incisors, wolf teeth and foreign 
substances from mouth. Removing 
dental cysts and growths. Trephining 
sinuses or cavities over offending teeth 
and driving them from their alveolus by 
means of a punch applied to their roots 
through this opening into the mouth. 
Prices for such services vary somewhat, 
i suggest as follows: Inquire the cost of 
a. thorough examination alone, and the 
doctor’s opinion as to what should be 
done; also his confidence regarding re¬ 
sult of treatment. If examination is 
made and opinion rendered, pay for it. 
You are then in a position to inquire 
price of operation and treatment. If 
the price, chances, etc., suit you, all 
right; if not, no harm done. This is 
business. 
While I write there lies before me a 
catalogue of “Bishoping” instruments, 
thus named for the ill-famed scoundrel 
who invented the fraudulent trick of 
gouging or engraving the table surfaces 
of horses’ lower incisors and then color¬ 
ing the hollows. Often the tusks are 
then rasped off, especially on the inner 
side, to make them more pointed. A 
vigorous, well-preserved horse of eight 
years and upwards is thus artistically 
transformed into a seven-year-old. To 
seme men these operations make the 
mouth appear much younger than it 
really is. No doubt this cheat is prac¬ 
ticed more generally than is usually 
suspected. Morally considered it is of 
course a criminal operation, and I am 
surprised that a reputable firm should 
lend their assistance to it to turn a 
penny into trade. 
Should the teeth, during their power¬ 
ful grinding, by accident come in con¬ 
tact with a piece of flint, glass or iron, 
we can imagine, in a measure, at least, 
the immediate effect. This accident has 
been the cause of many a “rotten” tooth. 
Decomposition then takes place. Putri- 
fication of saliva adds to the rapid de¬ 
cay. The tooth becomes soft enough to 
cut. A swelling is seen on the side of 
the jaw. The opposite grinder continues 
growing in consequence of lack of attri¬ 
tion, or lack of resistance in grinding. 
This healthy long tooth at length begins 
crushing the tissues of the unprotected 
gum. Pus accumulates in .the cavities 
above, and produces intolerable suffer¬ 
ing. The swelling of the jaw somewhat 
subsides. The horse is off his feed. 
Then follows the administration of sev¬ 
eral mysterious stock foods (?), drenches 
and pills. He slowly grows no better. 
Perhaps he endeavors to masticate on 
the well side. There is more or less sali¬ 
vation; but the hay, being insufficiently 
crushed, can only, be swallowed in small 
quantities or not at all, so that the hay 
drops from the mouth in cuds of vari¬ 
able size, and in time he may become a 
mere skeleton. The glands under the 
jaw enlarge. A discharge from the nos¬ 
tril ensues. The deflux is constant and 
the breath becomes fetid to such a de¬ 
gree that the stench is unbearable. The 
neighboring “hoss doctor” is called. The 
case is declared to be glanders. The 
horse is destroyed. Such has been the 
fete of many a good horse that could 
have been saved by the extraction or 
cutting off of a tooth or two, or by tre¬ 
phining over the tooth and thoroughly 
washing out the cavity and nostril. A 
< hronie nasal discharge will admit of a 
very careful examination by a skilled 
veterinarian. An elderly Quaker (God 
bless the Quakers!) once led a wretched 
worn-out looking carcass of a draft stal¬ 
lion to me for examination. He told me 
the horse was only five years old, and 
for several months had only been able 
to take mashes and gruel. He had been 
treated for several different complaints. 
The owner had heard of me, had traveled 
quite a distance, and declared he was 
decided that if I could not help the horse 
he would have him immediately de¬ 
stroyed. In a few minutes I discovered 
and extracted a decayed molar, and 
straightway he began eating hay as only 
a starving horse could. In a few months 
he was entirely restored, and to this day 
is a useful and valuable animal. 
The drawing of permanent grinders of 
a horse often requires great mechanical 
force, and under some circumstances is 
a sober undertaking. Their peculiar 
long and solid insertion, the narrow con¬ 
nections which exist between them, the 
solidity of the whole arrangement, the 
restlessness, and often violent struggles 
of the patient, in part explain the seri¬ 
ousness of this operation. The younger 
the animal, the more difficult it is to 
draw a permanent molar, for then its 
insertion is of extreme depth. There is 
no practical remedy for decayed grinders 
in the horse, save extraction, and this 
should be accomplished immediately by 
a thoroughly competent operator, as 
there is often grave danger in perform¬ 
ing such operations, both to the patient 
and the operator. It is sometimes neces¬ 
sary to throw or confine such patients, 
but an able operator, with few excep¬ 
tions, can operate without speculum or 
gag, the horse being in standing posi¬ 
tion. Fracture of the jaw, swallowing 
the drawn tooth, profuse bleeding, and 
quite a number of other harmful acci¬ 
dents have happened the animal during 
the operation, thereby showing the 
necessity of skill. 
Without the shadow of a doubt, the 
horse is as subject to toothache as is the 
human. To those who are in the least 
skeptical on this subject, I respectfully 
refer them to the bone pile of the junk 
dealer, and I assure them they will be 
astounded at the number of horses’ dis¬ 
eased teeth they will find. Diseased 
teeth have even been found in the fossil 
remains of horses, elephants and other 
animals. I trust that these hints may be 
found of service and assistance to some 
one who is interested in horses and their 
care. s. n. Howard, v. s. 
Highland Co., 0. 
SHEEP IN A VERMONT ORCHARD. 
We are pleased to have Mr. Hitchings’s 
method of growing apples so fully de¬ 
scribed. The most serious disappoint¬ 
ment for us this year is the discovery 
that for our conditions sheep in an or¬ 
chard will not do. Last Winter we 
bought two ewes, thinking to grow up a 
flock and let them cut the grass and 
fertilize the orchard. In due time the 
flock was doubled by the addition of two 
ewe lambs. They were great pets with 
the children, and not less with the head 
of the household, as we had not had 
sheep on the farm for 40 years. When 
the snow went off we put them in the 
yard inclosing the house, where are 
about 60 trees of varying kinds and 
ages. They were fed liberally, provided 
with shelter, and given as good care as 
we knew how. All went well for a 
while. The sheep were thriving and the 
lambs were growing like weeds. We had 
a suspicion that at the prices for grain 
this year they would eat more wheat 
bran than they were worth. But they 
v’ere purebred stock, and we took pleas¬ 
ure in seeing them do well, and in the 
thought that the trees also would be well 
fed. We were gratified also with the 
prospect of not having to mow the or¬ 
chard. Getting down on one’s hands and 
knees and trying to mow with a scythe 
under an apple'rtree is not a very agree¬ 
able job. Ou& hopes, however, were 
soon blighted. * The sheep took every 
leaf and twig within four feet of the 
ground. It was soon apparent that the 
small trees were in a fair way to be 
ruined. We knew, too, that when the 
apples came to weigh down the trees 
later in the season more limbs would be 
brought within their reach, and that 
these would be denuded of both fruit and 
leaves. We backed out promptly and put 
the sheep elsewhere. On a part of the 
main orchard which comprises three or 
four acres we have tried cultivation for 
several years. The trees have improved 
rapidly, but for us the method of cultiva¬ 
tion has the objection that every time 
the soil is stirred it works down the hill, 
and every hard shower washes the 
ground badly. This part of the orchard 
has now been seeded to grass. This year 
on the part of the orchard which has 
been in sod for years we left the hay as 
it was cut. It required considerable grit, 
and we ran the risk of being thought in¬ 
sane, but we are hoping to see good re¬ 
sults from it. The mulch and after 
growth are fully a foot high. 
Vermont. A. N. bliss. 
Empire No. 1 A. 
Her. I am 
[«*• Sepwrwtorl 
Queen 
The MoLrvel of 
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Construction. 
Everybody is talking about me, 
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ear burns because they can say 
nothing but good of 
me. 
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because upon examination I ap¬ 
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The Women Admire Me 
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The Children Like io 
R.un Me 
because my construction provides 
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motion. 
I Am Supremely Popular 
because I am a clean-cut, ready- 
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I skim milk at the rate of 300 lbs. 
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Butter Extractor Co.» 
BLOOMFIELD. - - N. J. 
Dehorned Cattle 
rest easy and show better milk and beef 
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tree 
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[TheContrx Christiana, Pa. c TfceBmllyY 
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is liable to "go lame” at any 
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Used arid Endorsed by Adams 
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Beware of so-called Elixirs—none genuine bnt Tuttle"*. 
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Newark, N. J. 
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THE CHAIN-HANGING 
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The most practical and humane Fastener ever In¬ 
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wiider’s stanchion 
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