STABLES AS THEY SHOULD BE. 



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whicli give admission into the branch drains ; these last, as well as the 

 main drain, consisting of circular earthen pipes. 



The undulations of the pavement not only facilitate the speedy re 

 moval of fluid, and thus tend to keep in a state of purity the atmosphere 



HOSES OF SIANSINO AFFORDED BY AN UNDULATED PAVEMENT. 



within the building, but the surface presents every variety of standing 

 ground to the choice of the quadruped. The animal, by this arrange- 

 ment, can select an upward slope, a downward incline, or a level plane, 

 whereon to rest the feet ; an ability of appropriation which intelligence 

 will not be slow to comprehend or tardy to appreciate. 



SIAOBAUATIC SECTION OF A SUPERFICIAL OUTTEB, BETERAL OF 'WSICH KEEP DRY THE LOOSE BOXES. 



1 1. The Dutch clinkers. 



2 2. The prepared ground on which the gutters and the pavement repose. 

 3. The semicircular earthenware gutter along which the fluid flows, covered by the loose iron grating. 



Each gutter should be two inches wide and two inches deep. They 

 ought to commence at the depth of a Dutch clinker from the surface, 

 and be covered by a perforated loose iron grating, the holes in which are 



