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a farmyard on a very small scale, are placed in the rear, having a 

 separate approach, — the dung- court being accessible to both sets of 

 stables, thus enabling the front yard of the stables to be always kept 

 free from litter and nuisance of any kind. Here in this case the hay, 

 straw, and corn are taken to the lofts over stables from the rear with- 

 out having to come into the stable -yard. By this arrangement the 

 stables are always kept clean and fit for the reception of visitors. 



The author would also strongly commend to the reader's attention 

 design Plate VIIL, which has been well planned, and might be reduced 

 and adapted to the requirements of a moderate establishment at very 

 much less cost. This plan can be perfected and made to possess all 

 the leading features of the best-digested examples in this work. 



Plate XV. is another design with a convenient plan. The design 

 would suit any Elizabethan or Tudor house. The centre feature 

 forms a gable with saddle- and harness-room and helpers' sleeping- 

 rooms over. From either side of this central feature the stables and 

 loose-boxes radiate. The block forms three sides of a quadrangle 

 joined at the angles by turret-staircases leading to coachman's and 

 groom's rooms. Hay, straw, and corn lofts are placed over the stables. 

 The general effect is after the fashion of Plate VH. 



The stables for ten horses (Plate IXa.) is somewhat peculiar on 

 plan, as will be seen from the bird's-eye view. The arrangements are 

 somewhat similar to Plate XL, and is on a larger scale, and would 

 make a suitable and convenient set of stables for a country mansion 

 in the Old English or Tudor style of architecture, and would look 

 very effective and picturesque in a shrubbery or in some thickly 

 wooded part near the kitchen offices. 



In point of economy perhaps Plate XVIa. would be the least ex- 

 pensive design in this work, having regard to the number of horses 

 provided for. This idea, with its simplicity of form and other advan- 

 tages, will no doubt commend itself to the notice of my readers. The 

 plan is unique, and shows an arrangement of stables not often met 

 with. 



In the plan of hunting-stable (Plate XXVII.) it will be observed 

 the range of loose-boxes for hunters resting is placed towards the 

 south, with doors from each loose-box, with this advantage that these 

 boxes would be useful for summering the hunters as well as resting 

 them during the hunting season. In all other respects this plan has 

 been devised to meet the requirements of a moderate-sized hunting-box. 



