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do them, although grooms are generally fo 

 difturbed about the matter : if they prefer the 

 ^ foiled litter, it indicates a depraved appetite 

 and want of phyfic. Complaints were for- 

 merly made by writers of the too general nar- 

 rownefs of ftalls, a defeft which no longer ex- 

 ifts in our befl flables, a moderate addition to 

 the length of the flails of which, would render 

 them complete and comfortable boxes. 



A very gentle defcent in the flail, is fuffi- 

 cient to facilitate the courfe of the urine to- 

 wards the drain ; but the fmk is now made with 

 a grating in the centre of the flail, which pre- 

 ferves the flable dry. Horfes are fecured in 

 their flails by two halters, one at each extre- 

 mity of the manger, either afhxed to it or 

 above it. Level with the horfe's head, in 

 front, is fixed a flrap, to buckle occafionally to 

 the nofe-band, and hold faft the head. On 

 each pofl, at the lower end of the flail, a flrap 

 ought to be attached, to communicate with 

 the bridle, when it fliall be neceffary to fet 

 the horfe upon the bit, with his tail towards 

 the manger. 



A fmall anti-room, or pafTage to the flable, 

 is exceedingly convenient for the purpofe of 

 containing the corn-chell, trufles of hay, pails, 

 brooms, and the various other neceffary arti- 

 cles ; and alfo for clofets and preffes, unlefs it 

 {hould be thought preferable to affix a prefs to 



the 



