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sary occasions, including that of a good wash-pond. The roofs of the 

 buildings to be guttered and disposed, so as to secure the rain water, 

 which if wanted, might be preserved- in receptacles, communicating 

 ultimately with the pond in the centre. 



In a bleak and exposed, or a deep and dirty country, the above plan 

 of stabling would afford comfort to both man and Horse, indescribable, 

 and indeed unnecessar} to be described, to those who know and feel. 

 The windows might be placed without, or in the front of the building, 

 whence, the stable doors being within-side, opening into the ride, a 

 thorough draught of air would be obtained, to purify on any particular 

 occasion, or to preserve the in-door atmosphere constantly pure. This 

 is an object too much neglected, even in superior stables: not that I 

 would decry a reasonable warmth, which comforts and agrees with the 

 constitution of the Horse; but in his absence, his room should ever be 

 supplied with fresh air, an attention which, in the course of my life, I 

 have never yet observed in any groom ; on the contrary, all whom 

 I have ever known, have shewn a marked aversion to it. Why 

 again, where are plenty of hands, and many of them too idle to keep 

 themselves down to a reasonable Aveight, should not every part, every 

 board, wall and corner of a stable, be preserved as nice and clean, as 

 that scene of jollity and indulgence, the servants* hall? Occasional 

 fumigations also, are very beneficial, very comfortable, and very condu- 

 cive to the health of the Horses, and they besides help to drive away 

 rats, mice and insects. These may be made with the oxy-muriatic 

 acid, or simply with sulphur, or smothered fires of green pine 

 branches. 



To return to generals, neither racks nor mangers are of absolute 

 necessity in a stable, and their inconveniences were matter of complaint 

 in former days. From the old-fashioned rack, extending across the 

 stall, and projecting at the summit, the Horse was liable to catch dust 

 and hay seeds in his eyes, and those racks were often placed so high as 

 to render it inconvenient to low Horses to reach their provender. 

 Fixed racks and mangers are, besides, always contaminated with the 

 breath and slaver of the animals feeding from them. The modern 

 small circular racks is convenient, and might be made moveable. In 



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