Live stock - a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying - being (14777466915)

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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries



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ess he iswanted for heavy draft. If the draft is heavy it should be slow, and thusthe horse may be big and also keep fat. For general work, the medium-sized horse is the best. A pair of horses, each 16 hands high and weigh-ing 1,200 pounds are well suited for city teaming and other ordinarydraft, except the hauling of heavy trucks. A fifteen-and-a-half hand,1,100-pound horse is suitable for the road, and if one-half hand less inheight and correspondingly light in weight, say 1,000 jjounds, he will doquite as well in single or double harness. Sixteen-hand horses are alsosuitable for coaches and heavy carriages, while the lighter animals will 112 ClDJOVES>lA Ot LJVB STOCK ANV OOMFLBIS STOCK OOCXOE. <erve as double teams for road driving. If they are good ones, free from-ice, weU-matched, and perfectly trained, do not be afraid to ask a goodrouna price for them. But do not exi^ect to get a large price for a cheap*iorse, nor need you expect to buy a perfect horse for a low price. He
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may, nowever, be cheap at any price yotu- purse may afford, lu buyin-.keep constantly in vie\^ what you want the animal for, but do not buy anyhorse because lio happens to strike your uneducated fancy. You ce*-tainly will not do so, if you have carefully studied the preceding chap-ters. CHAPTER V.THE HORSES TEETH ; AND HOW TO TELL HIS AGE. I. THE DENTAL FORMULA. II. THE TEETH ARE THE TRUE INT>EX OF AGE. III. THE FOAL*S TEETH. IV. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TEETH OF FOAL AND HORSIt Iv. ALLOWANCES TO BE MADE. VI. ILLUSTRATING BY THE CHART. I. The Dental Formula.The names and numbers of the teeth of the horse are as follows: In-cisors (front teeth or nippers) ; ; canine, oi tushes or hook teeth, in themale only, ( ^ : molars, or grinding teeth f f, making forty in all. Thisis for tlie male. The mare has but thirty-six, since she lacks the tush-es, or canine teeth. These sometimes also fail to develop in the geld-ing. II. The Teeth are the True Index of Age.Almost every horseman i