34 NOTES FOR HUNTING-MEN 



Stalls, if you have them, should be at least ten 

 feet long and six feet wide. 



stalls 



As good a form of manger as I know is 



one invented, I believe, by Captain Steeds, of 



Clonsilla, near Dublin. It consists of a 



Manger • t -i • 



cauldron, ten inches m diameter, let mto 

 a bed of concrete. The sill of this bed is about a 

 foot wide, and stands at 2 ft. 6 in. from the floor. 

 The cauldron is easily cleaned out, and the sill is 

 so wide that there is no possibility of a horse 

 catching hold of it. Since using these mangers, 

 which I have now in every box, crib-biting has 

 been absolutely unknown in my stable, and I 

 believe the inventor's experience has been the same. 

 Of course they have their disadvantages. To 

 begin with, they are somewhat unsightly ; then the 

 solid bed projecting out into the box, a horse some- 

 times, when pawing, may hit them with his fore- 

 leg ; and, lastly, I have known a horse jump up and 

 land with one fore-leg in the cauldron. There is 

 no danger in this, however, if the bed of concrete 

 is quite solid below. If not, the horse may break 

 it, and cut himself. 



Water should be always in front of horses. I 



arrange this, cheaply and simply, by means of a chain 



round a plain oak bucket, hung at about 



three feet from the ground. These buckets 



should of course be cleaned out daily. 



