88 A B C OF THE HORSE 



Cleanliness is of the utmost innport- 

 ance in any stable, and with cleanliness 

 naturally goes attention to all matters 

 of drainage. Do not allow the 

 dung-heap to be made just outside 

 the stable door. It is easier to throw 

 the used-up straw there, but it will 

 also be in just the position to pollute 

 the atmosphere, and to cause the smells 

 arising from it, when the wind is in a 

 certain direction, to flow back into the 

 stable. Be the system of drainage 

 what it may, the owner can at anyrate 

 see that the drains are not allowed to 

 collect and stagnate in any little holes 

 that there may be in the floor, and 



