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ON GROOMS AND STABLES. 



not uncommon for one horse to bite the end off another's 

 ear ; it may be only for fun, but it makes an ugly-shaped 

 ear, and has to be trimmed down into shape, and the 



A MODERN STABLE, AS IT MAY BE ADAPTED AND IMPROVED. 



other to match it must be cut in the same style. The 

 stall should also be long enough to suffer the horse to lie 

 in it, and not with his hinder parts out of it. Six and a 

 half to seven feet from hay-box to end of stall is not too 

 much. Many fine horses are ruined by getting their feet 

 and legs in their neighbors' stalls, and in attempting to get 



