300 THE HORSE 



generally suffice for the pui-pose. In almost all cases, even where clothing 

 is not used, it is heaped on when the horse is taken into the stable, in order 

 to encourage the flow of perspiration. (For "Sweaters," see page 247.) 



THE TURKISH BATH 



The Turkish bath when employed for horses, requires 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 Avater. 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 peculiar 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 

 plent}'^ 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 chimney 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 off com- 

 pletely, to raise the temperature to the proper degree before the horse is 

 admitted. One or two valves, in addition to the door I, all capable of 

 Ijeing opened and closed at will, must also be fixed in the wall, between the 

 boxes G and H, and by their means, added to the heat given off by the 

 flue in it, this preparatory box msij be heated to 80° or 90° of Fahrenheit, 

 so as to bring on a gentle action of the skin, before the horse is introduced 

 to the actual sweating box — G. The preparatory box, H, may be fitted up 

 like a common loose box, and ma}^ be used as such, whenever the bath is 

 not required, but the latter should have no manger or any other projecting 

 body of metal, for when the heat is raised to 160°, the contact with the 

 teeth and tongue is by no means pleasant. Tan forms the best material 

 for the floor, or, if this cannot readily be obtained, sawdust will answer 

 .nearly as well, if the wetted parts are changed after each bath. A brick 

 floor feels too warm to the feet, and when the bath is given very hot, it 

 may injure them, if uncovered by some non-conductor of heat, so that ifc 

 is better to avoid all risk, by using tan or sawdust. With this apparatus 

 in working order, and the fire lighted in the stove A, the box H is heated 



