FODDER-ROOM 



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each other and open to a free circulation of air, in order to ensure rapid 

 drying and to prevent mildew. It is impossible, within the limits of our 

 space, to describe all the varieties of brackets for harness, saddles, collars, 

 bridles, girths, whips, bits, reins, &c. Figs. 579, 580, 581, 582, and 583 

 will give some idea of the principles which guide the manufacture and 

 use of such articles. A contrivance for airing the inside of a saddle 

 before the harness-room fire is shown in fig. 584. This, when not in use, 

 will fold up, and can be hung against the wall. A saddle-and-harness 

 cleaning-horse, which combines a press and drawers for horse clothing and 

 cleaning articles, with provision for opening 

 out the saddle-horse to form a table, may be 

 found very useful where space is confined. 

 There are also many other conveniences, if 

 not requisites, for the harness-room, such as 

 brush- and sponge-drainers, chamois-leather 

 and brush boxes, wall-brackets to hold car- 

 riage-lamps when not in use, &c. 



Spare-harness Room. In large es- 

 tablishments it may be found convenient to 

 have a spare-harness room for the reception 

 of articles not in daily use, as in the case of 

 town- or country-houses occupied by the 

 family in turn for a part only of the year. 

 This will apply especially to country-houses 

 in which there may be a large influx of 



guests during the hunting season. Particular care should be taken of the 

 warming of such a room, as leather and steel goods, when laid away, are 

 very susceptible to damp. In regard to this, it may be borne in mind that 

 stagnant air, even when warm, is more conducive to mildew than much 

 colder air when freely circulated, and therefore that attention to ventilation 

 is of great importance both in a harness-room and coach-house. 



Fig. 584. Saddle-airer 



FODDER-ROOM 



The fodder- or provender-room is indispensable where a large number 

 of horses are kept. It should be fitted with bins overhead for corn, &c., 

 and a chaff-cutter, and it is desirable that the corn-shoot and hay-shoot 

 should discharge into this room instead of into the stable. These shoots 

 are now made to measure the exact quantity of an ordinary feed for a 

 horse. In large stables there may also well be an extra house for the 

 storage of roots. 



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