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Show TELLING THE AGE OF HORSES Most Easily Determined by Cups ir the Teeth Front Teeth Permanent Perma-nent at Four Years. The age of a horse is most easily determined by the cups in the teetb. At four years, the horse has his permanent per-manent front teeth. At five, there are deep black cavities in the centers of all lower nippers. At six, these cavities disappear in the two center lower nippers. nip-pers. Two more lose their cavities for each year to the eighth, and then the two center upper nippers lose their cavities, and each year two more, until un-til at the age of ten the teeth are aff smooth, or retain only a small black; speck. After the age of ten the length of the teeth and tushes must be judgedf even then the age can be determined only approximately. |