THE STABLE 17 



also tend to promote the happiness, and as a 

 natural consequence the health of their inmates. 

 But light is one thing and glare is another, and 

 the latter it is necessary to avoid. It has an in- 

 jurious effect on a horse's eyes, if the reader does 

 not credit this statement let him try the effect 

 of glare on his own for half a day, and the sun 

 pouring into the stable interferes very consider- 

 ably with a horse's rest. So the windows should 

 be so placed that the sun can be kept out of the 

 stable and so that they can be darkened if neces- 

 sary, and glazed tiles or any glaring coloured 

 walls should be avoided. Glazed tiles look well 

 and are easily kept clean and some people like 

 whitened walls, to which certainly the same 

 remarks apply, but neither are desirable and a 

 soft neutral tint of paint is perhaps to be pre- 

 ferred to everything. If it should be decided to 

 use glazed tiles white ones should be avoided as 

 they reflect many points of light and consequently 

 are very trying to the eyes. It is essential that 

 the windows of all stables and loose boxes should 

 be placed high up so that the light shall not strike 

 directly upon the eyes. The windows should 

 open inwards. The kind of window to be pre- 

 ferred is one with hinges at the top, which can be 

 regulated by an iron bar and slots. It should 

 not be necessary to insist that the window fasten- 

 ings should be out of the reach of the horses. 



A considerable amount of stable work has to 

 be done in the dark in the winter season, and the 

 artificial lighting of a stable is an important 



