Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-12-25
THE HORSE
BY JOSEPH BATTELL
From Advance Sheets.
Copyright Secured.
Continued froM last 70eck.
NATURAL HISTORY


leg instantly the gand right hind
ground thus in the gop there three beats
intervals in the first interval when the movement made
with haste the legs for instant in the air at the
time and the four shoes be at When the horse
has supple limbs and launches and with agility the gaop
perfect the cadence made four times first the
right hind foot the left fore foot and
lastly the right fore foot.
important thing be the the horse
AS they advance years the pits commonly sink but from
teeth the knowledge of their
forty twentour grinders eye teeth
tsk ndweve ncsve teeth Mares have eyeteeh they
have them they very Short from the front and teeth
alone enabled any judgment of their The
front teeth begin show themselves few days after the birth
OF the foa these first teeth round short and not sod
they drop different others. At
years and half the four middle teeth drop the top
the bottom year others fall each
side OF the first which already replaced At four years and
half others drop always each side OF those which have
been Shed and repaced these four last milk teeth replaced by
four Others which do grow fast those which replaced
the first eight and these last teeth which called the Wedges
teeth those by which the horse distinguishes
these easily known, since they the third well top
bottom beginning from the middle of the extremity of the
jaw teeth hollow and have black mark in their cavities
At years half years DID, they scarcely project
yond the gums, and their cavities plainly AT years
and half they begin fill up the mark also begins diminish
gradually till he to and half eight
when the hollow is entirely filled and the black marks eaced
After the animal has attained this PERIOD attempt
judge his age by the eye teeth tusk these four teeth
placed the side those which just described Neither
the teeth the grinders preceded by others which fall
Those of the interior jaw usually begin shoot three and half
the of the upper the and till the animal
years old they veryho old the upper APP
pear already blunt and long because the gum
with age and the appears away the aged the
horse From till thirteen years. there is hardly any
indication OF the age when some OF the hairs on the eyebrows
gin grow white but this indication equvoca has been
remarked that horses engendered from old stations and old
the hair white the eyebrows age years There
horses whose teeth hard that they do and
upon which the black mark subs and is caced but these
easily by the length the eyeeh We may also know
though with less precision the age horse by the ridges the
palate which efaced in proportion to his age"
The sleeps much less than when he health
he does than three hours togehe he then
gets up When he has been much agued he lies down
having but the whole he sleep
than three hours in the wcnour. There
horses who lie down but sleep standing which
with those who do lie down. 1t has also
remarked that gcdngs sleep otcner and longer than horses
This chapter Natural History will close with the
chapter Horses in Darwns work entitled "Aumas and Plants
Under Demonstration" follows:
The history the is lost antiquity. Remains Of
this animal in domecaed condition have been found in the
Swiss dwellings, belonging the Neothc period AT the
present of breeds great may be by
sung any treatise the Horse Looking only the native ponies
Britain those the Shetland Isles Wales the New Forest
and Devonhire dsngushable and is amongst other in
with each separate island the Malay archipelago
present great differences size shape of
length proportions the body form of the wthers and
quarters especially in the head Compare the racehoe
drayhorse Shetland conguraton and DISPOSE
how much the difference than between the
eight other living species of the genus Equus
variations known characterize particular
injurious enough be called monstroses
collected Mr. G. Brown of the Crenceer
Agricultural College, who has particularly attended to the denon
of our domestic animals has several times
eight ncsors instead
horses only should have cnnes but they occasionally
the though small size. The ribs on each side is