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 BLIND TgErn IN IloRsEs--Referfing to an article on this subject, in the December number of the Clltivalor. Mr.L. Physick, of Maryland, ill a letter to us, says:

 Il observe that you arc desirous to obtain all the information you can collect abous blind tecth' iu horses. This was matter entirely new to me til last summer, when one of my horses had nearly lost the use of his sight, which attributed 10 over work, he being of q restless disposition when at work. Some time after the prcdsposition to blindness was discovered, (the sight of one eye being almost, Ii not entirely gone,) he was sent ioa blacksmith to be shod. The smith told the boy, that if a certain tooth, pointing t out 10 the boy, was not extracted, the horse would soon be entirely blind; and, without my assent took hammer and piece of bar iron, as described by the boy rather barbarous pullipg-aild knocked it out. The boy said ihere was no evidence of pain experienced by the horse, and that the tooth dropped out with the first stroke 0! the ham mef. Whether this was the cause of blind ness or not. cannot say; but the horse very shortly afterwards recovered his sight, which since then continues goodo