CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF STABLES. 



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the roof. As to doors, have enough to keep the stable cool in summer, 

 but avoid a draft, especially when the horses come in warm and tired, as 

 they are then especially susceptible to colds, and attacks of throat and 

 lung diseases, etc. 



III. Feeding and Watering Stock. 

 This is a matter that interests every stock owner, and one also in which 

 there is a great amount of abuse. We seldom find a duplicate of the 

 notorious bad-debt collector, Cottle, of Chicago, who deliberately starved 

 his horse to death, but we often find men who abuse their stock through 

 ignorance. For instance, there are not a few who water their horses only 

 twice a day. This is a real abuse, for not only does the animal get ter- 

 ribly thirsty, but, as a consequence of his intense craving for water, he 

 ^vill, when he at last gets at it, drink a great deal more than is good for 



THE PROPER WAY. 



How to dry and clean the legs in cold weather. 



him. The stomach of a horse holds only about three gallons, but in these 

 cases he will sometimes drink three or four pailfulls, making from nine to 

 twelve o-allons. If this follows soon after eating, it washes the food right 

 throu^^h the stomach into the intestines, before it is digested, giving rise to 

 colic, with all its attendant dangers. The water given stock should always 

 be clean, not from a foul well in the barn-yard, and should be allowed 

 three or four times a day, preferably four; or, better still, let it run 

 before them all the time, being careful not to lot them over-drink when 

 coming in warm from work. 



The food should be clean, sound, dry, healthy grain and hay, and welj 

 harvested, free from smut. It is a great saving to the pocket of the 



