Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1901 — How to Tell a Horae's Age. [ARTICLE]

How to Tell a Horae's Age.

The popular idea that the age of a horse can always be told by looking at his teeth, says a veterinary surgeon, Is not entirely correct. After the eighth year the horse has no more new teeth, so that the tooth method Is useless for telling the age of a horse which Is more than eight years old. As soon as the set of teeth Is complete, however, a wrinkle begins to appear on tilt upper edge of the lower eyelid, and a new wrinkle is added each year, so that to get at the age of a horse over eight years eld you must figure the teeth plus the wrinkles.