EXAMPLE OF LOOSE-BOXES FOR 

 SUMMERING HORSES. 



PLATE XXVI. 



EOSE-BOXES built of wood are useful for stabling hunters in 

 summer, and for brood-mares or stallions. These should be 

 placed in a Avell-sheltered situation, with a south-east aspect ; and in 

 order to keep the yards dry, the ground should gradually slope from 

 the boxes and be further dealt with as hereafter described. Another 

 form of plan, say for four or six boxes, would be to place the fodder- 

 store in the centre of the block, by which plan the yards might be 

 made wider than the boxes, and some symmetrical form of plan ob- 

 tained. The rain-water from the roof ought to be conserved and 

 stored in rain-water butts, and it would be well to have two water- 

 butts connected together, the first one partly filled with fine sand 

 and gravel for filtering purposes. The boxes hereafter described are 

 of a superior character, as will be gathered from the description. Of 

 course it is possible to erect less expensive loose-boxes, which perhaps 

 would answer every purpose, for about the rate of two pounds sterling 

 for every superficial yard of space the boxes cover, and this price would 

 include the cost of yards and fodder-houses. 



This plate shows a range of loose-boxes recently erected by the 

 author for a nobleman in Surrey, in a paddock adjoining his mansion. 

 They consist of three boxes and a fodder-store. The boxes are each 

 14 feet by 14 feet, and are wholly constructed of timber-framing and 

 weather-boarding, on sound brick and concrete foundations. The roof 



