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opposite tooth will sooner or later grow into that eavity, and if 
not cnt off, will bruise the opposing jaw. The animal may be 
serviceably sound. 
_ Cribbing.—This I will take up along with wind-sucking. 
Wind-sucking usually follows cribbing, and when he gets more 
accomplished he becomes a wind-sucker. A cribber must have 
some object on which to press his teeth. A cribber may become 
a wind-sucker iu a very short time, and I have seen a horse 
graduate in one ease in about four days. It is certainly a cause 
to reject a horse. Its simplest fault is ruining the general ap¬ 
pearance of the teeth. It is an unsoundness, or it leads to un¬ 
soundness. It may be a symptom of gastric irritation and 
chronic indigestion, unless gotten by imitation. Cribbing, if 
only a habit, leads to wind-sucking, and wind-sucking leads to 
constant bloating and irritation of the digestive apparatus, or is 
due to that condition. My opinion is that cribbing is an un¬ 
soundness, and wind-sucking still more so. 
Misrepresentation of Age.—This is a little hard to define as 
an unsoundness. If the animal is perfectly sound, that could 
not be called an unsoundness. The animal could be returned 
as being unfit for use if purchased. Forcing the age by extract¬ 
ing the milk teeth before they are ready to be shed is easy to 
tell, and the rejection of the animal should depend upon his 
acceptability to the buyer. 
Side-pulling.—This takes in its scope a hard-mouthed ‘ani¬ 
mal. Side-pulling is a very disagreeable and dangerous habit, 
and I claim an animal so affected is unsound. Side-pulling may 
be due to a habit, or from sharp or diseased teeth. It is some¬ 
times a result of nasal gleet and brain pressure. Sometimes 
there is no diseased condition at all, and he may become a side- 
pnller by having been driven double and then single. It is a 
very dangerous habit, especially in crowded cities, as the animal 
may be the cause of bringing his owner into court. Hard-mouth 
comes out in driving. It is usually more or less easy to tell by 
the cicatrized condition of the mouth. 
Dr . Merillat .—I will include diseased and absent molars as 
one and speak of them together. On account of the importance 
of mastication, I would consider it a serious lesion. There is no 
animal in the order of mammalia or herbivora that needs such 
an extensive mechanism of mastication as does the horse. His 
food is dry and hard in texture, and must be thoroughly masti¬ 
cated for his gastric digestion, and such diseased molars must 
lead to serious disease sooner or later ; and, again, disease of one 
