STABLES AS THEY SHOULD BE. 



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removed without the horse being at all inconvenienced ; but, assuredly, 

 the proprietor will be vexed at a destruction which necessitates the 

 quadruped should be idle until nature has repaired the loss of substance. 



The branch drains, which commence at twenty inches from the sur- 

 face, can be only entered through a stink trap ; that article also opposes 

 an obstacle to the free passage of vermin. All these branches terminate 

 in the main drain, which, where the tube begins, is situated thirty-four 

 inches within the soil, and, as it proceeds, has a fall of about one foot in 

 fifteen feet. 



Neither the pipes, the gutter, nor the clinkers are placed within or 

 rest upon unprepared soil. Such may be the usual plan after which 

 most stables are now built ; for the drainage of these places does not 

 generally extend beneath the surface. The pavement of the contem- 

 plated stable, however, is to be raised two feet above the level of the 

 ground on which it is erected. For the entire space which the structure 

 will occupy, the soil is, in the first instance, to be removed to the depth 

 of one foot. After the foundations have been properly laid, the walls 

 are then to be raised till they are built up two feet above the natural 

 level of the surrounding surface. 



A layer of large flints or of coarse brick rubbish is then to be thrown 

 in; this layer is to be two feet six inches in 

 thickness. Within this, the main and the branch 

 drains are to be arranged, though the principal 

 drain will also have, toward its termination, to 

 be sunk into the earth. The remaining six 

 inches is to be filled in with coarse sand; upon 

 this the gutters are to commence. 



The gutters are two inches deep. They all 

 originate at five inches from the upper surface 

 of the clinkers. The shallowest has a fall of 

 fifteen inches, but others have a much greater 

 inclination, as all empty into the branch drains which communicate with 

 the main drain. This last, sinking deeper as it proceeds, quits the build- 

 ing at a depth of six feet six inches from the exterior of the sand within 

 the walls of the stable. 



The contemplated structure will be thus thrice drained. First, there 

 will be the deep tubular main and branch drains ; next, there is the sand 

 and brick rubbish ; while, lastly, there is the surface drainage effected by 

 the grated gutters. So much pains have been consciously bestowed 

 upon the dryness of the building, because nothing will, in the end, prove 

 more detrimental to the horse than confinement in a damp abode. Not 

 only does perfect drainage conserve the health of the equine inhabitants. 



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DIAGRAM, EXPLANATORY OP THE 

 MANNER IN WHICH THE GROUND 

 OF THE STABLE IS FORMED. 



