The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-08
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
How TO Know THE AGE OF A HORSE

How TO Know THE AGE OF A HORSE.
The colt is born with twelve grinders;
when four front teeth have made their
appearance, the colt is twelve days old
and when the next four come forth it is
four weeks old. When the corner teeth
appear the COLTS eight months old; when
the latter have attained to the height of
the front teeth it is one year old. The
two-year old colt has the kernel (the
dark substance in the middle of the
tooth's CROWN ground out of all the
front teeth. In the third year the
middle front teeth are being shifted
and when three years old these are sub
stituted by the horse teeth. The next
four teeth are shifted in the fourth year,
and the corner teeth in the fifth. At
six years the kernel is worn out of the
lower middle front teeth, and the bride
teeth have now attained to their full
growth. AT seven years a hook has
been formed in the corner teeth of the
upper jaw, the kernel of the teeth at the
middle fronts is worn out, the bride
teeth begin to wear off. At eight years
of age the kernel is worn out of the
lower front teeth and begins to decrease
in the middle upper fronts. In the
ninth year the kernel has wholly disap-
peared from the upper middle front
teeth, the hook on the corner teeth has
increased in size, and the bride teeth
lose their points. In the tenth year the
kernel is worn out of the teeth next to
the middle front of the upper jaw; and
in the eleventh year the kernel has en-
tirely vanished from the corner teeth of
the same Jaw. At twelve years old the
crown of all the front teeth in the lower
jaw has become triangular, and the bri-
die teeth are much worn down. AS the
horse advances in age, the gums shrink
away fam the teeth, which, consequent
ly, receive a long narrow appearance,
morphosed into II darkish point, grey
hairs increase in the forehead, over the
eyes, and the chin assumes the form Of
an angle-JOurnaI Of tile Farm.
ANTICIPATING EFFECTS OF CULTIvA-
TIoN.-There is scarcely vegetable
we at present employ that can be found
growing naturally. Button states that
our wheat is factitious production,
raised to its present condition by the art
even oats, are not to be found wild
that is to say, growing naturally in any
part of the earth, but have been altered
by the industry of mankind, from plants
now resembling them, in such degree
as to enable us to recognize their rela-
tions. The acrid and disagreeable Apiun,
grace0JenS has been transformed into a
delicious celery; and the colewort, Il
plant of scanty leaves, not weighing al
together half all ounce, has been I'M
proved into cabbage, whose leaves alone
bear many pounds, or into a caulihower
of considerable Misunderstanding only
the embryo of few buds, which, in
their natural state, would not have
weighed as many grains. The potato,
again, whose introduction has added
millions to our wealth, derives its origin
from small and bitter root which grows
wild in Chill and Montevideo. If any
of our readers are skeptical upon the
subject of such metamorphosis, let them
visit the fairy bower of horticulture,
and they will perceive that her magic
wand has not only converted the tough
coriaceous covering of the almond into
the soft and melting flesh of the peach,
but that by her spells the sour aloe has
ripened into the delicious plum, and the
austere crab of our woods into the gold
en- pippin. That this, again, has been
made to sport in almost endless variety
emulating in beauty of form and color
in exuberance of fertility and richness
of flavor, the productions of warmer
regions and more propitious climates
! DR.. Paris on Diet.