Chapter III 



STABLING AND STABLES 



IT is unfortunate for the horses and servants 

 who have to occupy them that so few stables 

 are built by practical men ; or perhaps it 

 is because architects and builders com- 

 prise few horsemen in their ranks. Externally 

 these structures are usually highly ornamental, 

 and frequently extremely attractive ; internally, 

 while appearing to the owner and his friends all 

 that ingenuity can devise and convenience de- 

 mand, they fall short in many of the real es- 

 sentials, and prove inconvenient, unhealthy, and 

 far from satisfactory. Architecturally they are 

 triumphs ; practically they are failures, presenting 

 wrong exposures, and providing scientific drainage 

 and ventilation which ought to be satisfactory, as 

 being of the most expert and newly approved 

 patterns, but which do not prove so. Horses 

 ought to do well in them, but are always ailing. 

 Varnish should keep bright; panels whole; linings 

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