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alluded to the fittings for each, and therefore I need say nothing more 
here beyond alluding to the plan itself. 
THE ARCHITECT employed by the St. Pancras Iron-works has designed « 
plan by which a loose box and two stalls may be arranged in a space only 
sixteen feet by fifteen, as shown in the following cut, which is drawn on 
a scale of one-sixth of an inch to a foot. Undoubtedly it may sometimes 
happen that such an area may be at hand, and at the same time being 
incapable of alteration, it may be desirable to lodge three horses within it, 
which can scarcely be done in any other way. But while I give him 
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credit for his ingenuity, I would strongly object to the general adoption 
of the plan when it can be avoided, on account of the danger of injury 
from kicking caused by the proximity of the heels of two of the horses to 
one another. The loose box moreover is very small, but still we cannot 
expect to place three horses without crowding them in such a limited space 
as this. Four feet more in length (that is eighteen feet) and one foot less 
in breadth (or fourteen feet) will give three good stalls, and the area is 
only increased by fourteen superficial feet, which can generally be obtained 
in some way. A loose box should, as I have already observed, be always 
thirteen or fourteen feet long and eight or nine feet wide, and if it is less 
than this I should prefer an open stall, on account of the danger of injury 
to the back in turning round. 
NECESSITY FOR AIRING NEW STABLES. 
To PUT HORSES INTO NEW STABLES without airing them is to give them 
cold or rheumatism. Indeed those which have been merely uninhabited 
