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CHAP. II. 



STABLE MANAGEMENT. VENTILATION. WARMTH. DIF- 

 FERENT TREATMENT FOR DIFFERENT HORSES. DRYNESS. 



WIDE DOORS. STALL POSTS. RACKS. AVINDOWS. 



BALLS. MANGERS. HEAD COLLARS. COLLAR SHANKS. 



MUZZLES. LOFTS. OBJECTIONS TO KEEPING HAY IN 



THEM. DIFFERENT MATERIALS FOR STABLE FLOORS. 



CAUSES FOR HANGING BACK. STABLE DRAINAGE. 



STABLE REQUISITES. NECESSITY OF RULE. SADDLE 



AND HARNESS ROOM. STOVES. BOXES. 



WE will now suppose a person" to have got, 

 through the good offices of a friend, as many 

 horses as he intends to keep, and those of a fair 

 sort for the purposes in view. Of course I put 

 race-horses out of the present consideration. We 

 will now have a look at 



THE STABLE. 



If I should say that about one stable in a hun- 

 dred is built so as to be perfectly comfortable, 

 healthful, convenient, and workmanlike-looking, 

 I should be giving odds in favour of the planners 

 of them. Doubtless horses live that have been 

 kept in all sorts of stables, and sometimes in very 

 bad ones ; but horses also die that have been kept 

 in them ; and many of these stables have been the 



