ABOUT STABLE DRAINAGE. 



In the interest of horse owners, and to promote 

 the health and well-being of our most useful and 

 willing servants— our horses— also to keep away 

 sickness from stables, the following suggestions for 

 the laying of stable floors are submitted : 



For a stall 5 feet wide and 9J feet long, the flooring 

 would be as in cut. Fig. 25, showing the whole 

 arrangement, and the laths, and iron drains, as 

 they are joined together. 



Give S}^ feet for the front boards, laid cross- 

 ways, then put down a board 2 inches thick on either 

 side of the stall, 6 feet long, 16 in. wide, overreaching 

 the gutter behind the stall by about one inch, the 

 rest in the middle is for the laths and drains. 



The laths ought to be of hard wood, (beechwood 

 is best), and rabbetted 3-16 of an inch, so that the 

 iron drains fit exactly under the laths, thereby an 

 escape of urine is made impossible. These laths 

 are 6 feet long, 3 1-2 in. wide, and 2 1-2 in. deep, and 

 rabbetted from the bottom up 1 1-4 in. They are 

 fastened down to the under-flooring by long screws, 

 for the sake of easy removal, if necessary. The 



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