STABLE UTENSILS, ETC. 155 



The brusli reqiTired for the inside of the carriage is 

 simply a large clothes brush. 



A groom will require various articles in addition 

 to the brushes, viz. a curr^^comb, which is an iron 

 tool ; a mane comb, for combing the horse's mane 

 and tail; a footpicker, for picking the dirt, &c., out 

 of their feet ; a bit polisher, resembling a nimiber 

 of little curb chains joined together, and a scraper 

 to scrape the wet and mud off the horse. The 

 scraper is simply a piece of flexible flat iron band, 

 with a handle at each end. 



He will also require some sets of flannel bandages 

 and one or two of linen ones. These are made of 

 strips of flannel about six or eight inches wide and 

 three yards long, with two tape strings at one end, 

 and are used to wrap round the horse's legs after 

 being washed or cleaned, on coming in from work. 

 The linen ones are to apply wet when the horse's 

 legs have sustained any blow or wrench ; two or 

 three sponges, two wash-leathers, some wooden 

 buckets, one or two galvanised iron ones, a wheel- 

 barrow and shovel, a hay fork and a manure fork, 

 complete pretty nearly the requirements of the stable. 

 There should also be in the granary where the corn 

 is kept, a wooden shovel to turn it over from time to 

 time, and there should be a quartern measure made 

 of wood, and holding exactly a quarter of a peck, one 

 filling of this measure being a proper feed to give 

 the horse at once. It is verv common to use a flat 



