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which he is. Sweats are given at periods varying from once a 

 week to once a fortnight after the first preparation, but seldom so 

 often during tliat time. When sweats are given without clothing, 

 they are in other respects just the same as described above, and 

 the strappers are required in a similar way to dry the horse at 

 once ; but the quantity of sweat is not nearly so great, and two 

 good hands will generally suffice for the purpose. In almost all 

 cases, even where clothing is not used, it is heaped on when the 

 borse is taken into the stable, in order to encourage the flow of 

 perspiration. 



THE TURKISH BATH. 



The Turkish bath when employed for hjrses, requiies two 

 boxes to be prepared, contiguous to each other, and, if economy is 

 an object, to the saddle-room also, in order that one fire shall serve 

 for all. The annexed plan has been carried out on this principle, 

 the fire-place A being placed in the saddle-room, and heating it, as 

 well as a boiler for hot water. It is sunk eighteen inches beneath 

 the floor of the saddle-room, so as to allow of the commencement 

 of the flue at B entering the bath-room, with its bottom two feet 

 from the floor of that apartment, and to pass beneath the final exit 

 of the flue, as it leaves to enter the chimney at F. The flue is 

 supported on arches, clear of the wall, from B to C rising two 

 inches in the foot, so that when it reaches the corner C, its bottom 

 is four feet from the ground. It is built exactly like the usual 

 flue of a hot-house, with dampers, and all the arrangements pecu- 

 liar to that apparatus. From C to D it may be either on arches, 

 or supported on slate built into the wall, as the heat is from this 

 point not sufficient to crack that material. At D the bottom is 

 about six feet high, and when it reaches the entrance B, it will 

 give plenty of head room for a horse to pass beneath. On this 

 side it is built in the wall, but still on arches so as to expose as 

 large a radiating surface as possible, and serves to heat the other 

 box H to the temperature required to prepare the horse for his 

 sweat. Finally, it passes along the upper part of the fourth wall, 

 in which also it is built in the same manner, and makes its exit 

 over the part where it entered, at F. Here the flues are so arranged 

 by dampers, that the current of warm air may either be directed 

 along the flue B C D E F, or it may be turned off" into the chim- 

 ney F, entirely or partially. Ventilators must be introduced freely 

 in the walls, so as to give plenty of fresh air when it is required, 

 or to shut it ofl^ completely, to raise the temperature to the proper 

 degree before the horse is admitted. One or two valves, in addi- 

 tion to the door I, all capable of being opened and closed at will, 

 must also be fixed in the wall, between the boxes Gr and H, and 

 by their means, added to the heat given off } y the flue in it, this 

 preparatory-box may be heated to 80° or 90° of Fahrenheit; so as 



