DENTITION AND THE AGE OF SHELP.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1431, 3 September 1881, Page 4

DENTITION AND THE AGE OF SHELP.

— - —+. - I'noMssnn .I.iiiips L,iv.' .says tl'a/; the boolo on sheep line -enou-ly misled Jlotkm.ista- 01, tin- «u!>|<.ct Almost .my sherp-ownci will till \<>u tint after .1 tho sheep gets .1 pin of bioul teefh jouly, iind it joii Mniw tint Ins own tlnee-yeai-olds have hmi pans of bio.id feelh he c.m (inh dum th it tliej aie lxCepnoiis, .111(1 piotest tll.lt tlioy do IlOt exceed thtee jais of \'/i\ Now, (hen 1 ( isos .11c no (m f ptioiis, f ol „li wdl-'ned sheep lvii' ,1 full mouth ot front feeth ,it thiee jcais old. Nome old unimpioved flo(ks in.iv still bo foiin'l in m liicJi the month is not tull until iK.uly fom yeais old, but tortutiati'lv tin -c .no now tlu> cxcepUoi)^, ,uid should not 1 c made the (Annd.iifl, .w tli< vso const, mtly arc In L'ots\\ol<K, Lciu-stci-., Limolns, Pmitluluwiis, O\(oid ])o\\n«. jl.in)])«line Dow lib, and even ill tho adv.nucd imimuios, and in the jfi.ules of all oi these, dentition is completed fioni li ill 1 \ en to a year eaihei The milk 01 Limb teeth aie easily distinguished f 1 run the peimanent 01 bio.id teeth by then smaller si/c, mid by the thickness of the -),iw bone aioiind' th'-n fanirs wlieie the ]x 1 maiient teeth aie still enclosed As the )nmb appioaehes ;i year old the bio.id, exposed pait of the tooth becomes woin away and the n.iiiou lan»s piojc Lt\n<jr aim's c the <^nnis> stand apait fioni each othei, leasms/wide )nt'ji\als Tins is i.> ni „!(,,,, lucked aftei the iiist pan of pei inancnt teetli li.nf tome up, overlapping each other at their od«o-j, and from tins time onw.ud thenuinbei of sm, ill milk teeth and of bio.ia peunanent teeth enn usually be made oit with case. Anothei distinguishing fe.iture is the jellow or d.irk eoloi.itiou c f the fangs of the milk teeth, whil-t the ( \pused noitinus ot the pcimancnl teeth me white, clear, and posuly. The .-urcessivo pans of peim.inpnt teeth make tin ir appeal nice tlnouyh the gums in jicUfinred breeds at about the followinar dates :— -The first pair at one 3'e.ir ; the second pair at one year and a half; the third pair at two yeais and three mouths; the fourth and List pair at three years It will be observed that between the appearance of the first two piirs theie is an interval of six months while after this c.ieh p.iir comes up nine month- after its predecessors. For backward grades and the unimpioved breed*, the eruption is about hix months Inter for each pair of teeth, but even with thoua the mouth is full fit thiee years and six months. — " N. B. Agiiculturist."

Fabmyard Manure. — Farmyard manure was the bost type of a general manure. It lias its origin in the soil, and if it has been carefully managed you return to the' soil everything that has been taken out of it.