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and so afford receptacles for filth. One of the 

 best bricks I know is a blue Staffordshire brick, 

 supplied, I believe, by the St. Pancras Iron Works 

 Company, which has a groove running down its 

 centre. This has the advantage of making the 

 drainage run down the brick and not along the 

 joints. 



My own system is to have a gutter running 

 down the middle of each box, starting from the 

 centre, with a slope of 1 in 60. 



This gutter runs mto a main surface drain, 

 which discharges itself into an underground one. 

 This point of discharge should be as distant as 

 possible from the stable — certainly not nearer 

 than twelve feet. 



There is an excellent work (which I had to 

 study when going through a veterinary course at 

 Aldershot) treating of this and all subjects con- 

 nected with healthy stables : ' Veterinary Hygiene,' 

 by Veterinary-Major Smith, F.E.C.V.S., which is 

 well worth getting by those interested in these 

 matters, as it treats most exhaustively of my next 

 point — Ventilation. 



This is so important a matter that I cannot 

 help dwelling on it for a little, though its import- 

 ance is now pretty generally understood, even by 

 old-fashioned civilian grooms. 



Personally, I began keeping a stable just about 



