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Title: How to handle and educate vicious horses
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Gleason, Oscar R. (Oscar Rudolph), 1856-
Subjects: Horses Dogs
Publisher: New York : Orange Judd Co.
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AGES OF HORSES. I2t N stands for nipper teeth; M for middle teeth, Cfor corner teeth. The groove comes on the uppercorner teeth at 10 years old; one-fourth way down, 12years old; one-half way down, 15 years old; three-fourths way down, 18 years old; all the way out to thebottom, 21 years old. The groove alluded to will be found on the cornertooth of the upper jaw, running down the middle ofthe tooth. When a horse is from fourteen days to sixyears old, I judge by the appearance of both jaws;when from six to ten years, by the lower jaw, andwhen from ten to twenty-one years, by the upper jaw. The above is the only true system in the world fortelling a horses age. It may be added, however,that long study and practical familiarity with horsesare necessary in order to tell a horses age readily andcorrectly.
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GEO. A. ST. JOHN, WILKESBARRE, PA., THE SCIENTIFIC HORSESHOER. PART FIFTH. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS ON SCIEN-TIFIC HORSESHOEING. There is no subject before American horse ownersto-day that should interest them more than the sub-ject of HORSESHOEING. The force of this statement will make itself felt whenwe consider that there are in the United States at thepresent time over thirteen million head of horses,and that fully half of them are badly crippled, almostspoiled by the sheer ignorance of the ordinary horse-shoer. I even claim that more lame horses are madeso by this botchery than by any other cause. Forthe simple reason that the majority of blacksmiths inthis country have not had the experience necessary todo the work as it should be done; because they have notthoroughly mastered their profession, in the first place.The following is the way our blacksmiths generallydeem it proper to shoe a horse, and I will also giveyou some of its consequences: Any shoe is selected,and the bars, as w

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