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STABLES 



PATENT BUFFER 



tage to have the water-pot made without a brass plug or chain, but on the 

 " tip-up " principle. This can be so arranged that, while the attendant 

 can turn it over to empty, the horse cannot possibly disturb it. The 

 water is discharged into a waste chamber, from which a metal pipe leads 

 to a continuation of the stall gutter; this is of great service for flushing 

 the latter out. The tumbling principle may also be applied to the manger, 

 rendering it more easily washed out when necessary. Another advantage 

 in the manger is a cross-bar (fig. 575), which prevents the horse from 

 " nosing " corn or other food over the edge. 



The tying of the horse in his Stall is of some importance, and in 

 this several improvements have been made with the object of avoiding noise 



and preventing the horse (if startled or fright- 

 ened) from injuring himself, or pulling away or 

 breaking the manger. In the arrangement 

 shown in fig. 576 the horse is not fastened to the 

 manger, but the chain or halter works through 

 a long slit in the top plate, or a front guide 

 ring, which allows it to play as freely as if there 

 were no manger before the horse. The bracket 

 supporting the manger holds back the halter- 

 weight close to the wall. The weight has an 

 india-rubber buffer on the top, which, when 

 suddenly pulled up, strikes a flat place below 

 the bracket and prevents noise, besides check- 

 ing to some extent the shock to the horse. 

 The upper end of the manger chain or halter 



has a small ball, which stops when it comes to the slit in the top plate, 

 and relieves the horse of the weight while feeding, the weight only 

 coming into play when the horse draws back or throws up his head. 

 There are several modifications of this principle, but all contain the buffer 

 on the weight and the ball to prevent it from dragging needlessly upon the 

 horse. Leather is sometimes substituted for the chain in the part passing 

 through the ring, so as still further to reduce noise. The tying also is 

 sometimes duplicated, so as to prevent all possibility of the horse breaking 

 away. 



DRAINAGE 



Channels Should be laid down the centre of each stall and along 

 the passage behind. The channel may be semicircular, of cast-iron, with 

 a perforated flat top, in sections made to slide, so that by removing one 

 of them the attendant can slide the other pieces along and clean out the 



Fig. 576. Musgrave's Horse-tying 

 Arrangement 



