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wise the great vicissitudes of heal 

 and cold will do much hurt to the 

 animals ; and the more as, being 

 tied up, the) cannot use much mo 

 tion. Some of the windows should 

 be glass, because horses are fond 

 of light. And it is better for their 

 eyes that they be not confined at 

 all to total darkness in the day 

 time. 



A manger is necessary in a sta- 

 ble, to preventing wasting of hay. 

 Some choose their horses should 

 have their hay in racks. Others 

 think it puts a horf«e into an un 

 natural posture, as he is used to 

 take his food from the ground. If 

 a rack be used, it should be per- 

 pendicular, not leaning towards 

 the horse, nor placed too high : 

 And the manger before it should be 

 two feet wide, or more. The hin- 

 der part of the rack should be made 

 shelving, that as the hay settle^-, it 

 may naturally press towards the 

 horse. 



A box for provender may be fixed 

 at one end of the manger, in each 

 stall ; or the manger may be made 

 as tight as a box, to prevent loss 

 of grain. But the surest way to 

 prevent wasting, is to give a horse 

 his corn in a pail, with a strap of 

 leather to slip over his head, which 

 will prevent the loss of so much 

 as a single grain. It may be put 

 on or off in an instant. See the 

 article Horse. 



STACK, a large quantity of hay. 

 grain, or straw, piled up, pointed 

 at the top, and usually covered 

 with long straw, or thatch, to keep 

 out the weather. 



Square and oblong stacks are 

 not goodt Round ones have a 



less quantity of superficies in pro- 

 poitiou to their contents ; and 

 iheiefore will receive less damage 

 from the weather. 



When sheaves of corn are stack- 

 ed, the heads should be all turned 

 carefully inward. But if designed 

 to stand long it should be on a ^vov 

 mounted on blocks, capped with 

 flat stones, lo prevent the entrance 

 of vermin. 



Farmers should not practise the 

 stacking of good hay, in a country 

 like ours, where timber for bund- 

 ing barns is plenty and cheap. For 

 so much of the outside i? always 

 spoiled by the weather, that they 

 may soon lose more in this way, 

 than the cost of a l>arn. 



But much of the salt hay in 

 marshes must be stick'^d, on ac- 

 count of the diflicuhy of removing 

 it before winter. These stacks 

 must be mounted on what is called 

 a staddle, consisting ■■ f piles driven 

 into the ground, ot such a height, 

 that the highest tides may not reach 

 the bottoms of the stacks. 



STAGGERS, a disorder to 

 which both horses and neat cattle 

 are liable. If the staggering and 

 Tailing of a horse be owing to hard 

 riding in hot weather, Gibson di- 

 rects to take without delay a pint 

 of blood from his neck, and then a 

 quart from some vein in his hinder 

 parts, that so an efT^ctual revulsion 

 may be made : And that he should 

 afterwards be kept on a moderate 

 and cleansing di;'t. 



When the disease arises from an 

 apoplectic disorder, he must not 

 only be bled, as in the former case, 

 but be exercised every day with 

 chewing assafoelida and savin, and 



