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STABLES 



for hygienic reasons to be preferred, but ordinary plaster can now be 



cheaply coated with Duresco or other preparation which admits of being 



washed or renewed at a comparatively slight cost. 



It is indispensable that the Stable-floor should be impervious to 



moisture, capable of being easily cleaned, and with as few places for the 



lodgment of dirt 

 as possible; the 

 surface should 

 have a sufficient 

 foothold to pre- 

 vent any risk of 

 a horse slipping. 

 The ground vitri- 

 fied clinker stable- 

 paving bricks 

 meet these re- 

 quirements, and 

 should belaid upon 

 Portland - cement 

 concrete. In the 

 ordinary paving 

 bricks, the joints 

 are at the bottom 

 of the grooves, 

 but it is better 

 to have the 

 grooves formed in 

 the middle of the 

 bricks, so that the 



A, Surface-drain or gutter; B, Disconnecting trap; D, Ventilation-pipe from J 



flats between the 

 grooves. The 



floor should have 



as little slope as is consistent with the flow of liquids, so that the horses 

 will not have to stand too much on an incline. Another excellent paving 

 is formed with adamantine-clinker bricks. These are of a small size 

 6 inches long, 2^ inches deep, and If inch thick and are laid on edge 

 in herring-bone fashion upon concrete, with rather open joints, and grouted 

 with cement. These clinkers wear with a gritty surface, and, being so 

 small, the numerous joints afford a good foothold for horses. They are 

 made with chamfered edges as well as square. Similar bricks are also 



Fig. 574. Section through Stable and Hayloft, showing 1 Drainage 

 and Ventilation 



sewer; E, Patent waste-chamber of manger with movable waste-pipe into the gutter; 

 F, Pipe through wall ; G, Air-inlet ; H, Air-outlet ; J, Valve for regulating outlet of 

 air ; K, Foul-air shaft ; L, Extract-cowl. 



