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CrZCLOPEDIA OF LIVE SKJCK AND CSOMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



is securely fastened there. Build the insides of the stalls of hard wood 

 plauks, to the height of four feet, and top them out three feet more with 

 strong wire-work, which is decidedly preferable to a solid partition 

 between the stalls, as it affords their inmates the comfort of one anoth- 

 er's society. Horses, like human beings, get lonesome when isolated, and 

 pine for company; besides this, solitude has a tendency to engender 

 viciousness. 



Ventilation is a very important matter, as every one will admit who 

 has gone into a badly ventilated stable in the morning, and noticed how 



THE LAZY MAN'S WAY OF CLEANING THE LEGS. 



Easy and convenient, but very injurious. 



it affects his eyes, his breathing, etc. Large tubes should be placed 

 alono- through the stable, from thirty to forty feet apart. They should 

 be from two to four feet square, and run out through the roof, with slats 

 at the top or sides for water-sheds ; below, they should come just through 

 the ceilino- into the stable. Then, every twenty feet, there should be tubes, 

 four or five inches square, entering at the floor, through the walls, from 

 the outside, and carried up along the wall inside as high as eight feet. 

 The air thus admitted, making a curve at the top of the tube, will descend 

 to the floor, but becoming tempered before it strikes the horses, and 

 will force up the warm, vitiated air through the large tubes and out through 



