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which is thrown in and out of gear as desired by a clutch. A 

 tension pulley is used in connection with this rope. The 

 stables (Fig. 40) is a brick building 011 the surface. That 

 the animals are well cared for is proved by the fact that there 

 is still one horse at work that has been hauling' underground 

 for 22 years, another for 17 years, and others for 13 years. 

 The standard size for the horses is 14.3 hands. The animals 

 come out of the mine every day, and at week-ends are put in 

 a paddock. In the stable each horse has a stall to himself. 

 Chaff is sent down a spout from the loft overhead into the 

 manger of each stall, and there is a water trough in common 



Fig. 40. Stables. 



between two stalls, which passes through the partition sepa- 

 rating the horses. The troughs are supplied with water from 

 a pipe arranged along the top of the stalls. The floor on 

 which the horses stand is laid with wooden blocks, and slopes 

 outwards towards a drain. The company grows its own green 

 feed, but the chaff is bought. The corn cracker is worked by 

 a i-h.p. motor. 



This colliery also owns brick and pipe works, with the 

 necessary crushing, grinding, mixing, and moulding ma- 

 chinery, and various kilns. Both common and fire bricks are 



