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advife you to this way is this, becaufe the receiving 

 his Hay down upon the Ground, wili help to clea/ife 

 his Head tromany Rheum or Dofe^ which be may have 

 gotten by negligence and over-exercife and induce 

 him by jnei.z.tng to throw out all manner of watry hu' 

 mors that may annoy his Head. If your Stable will 

 allow, you may build feveral Partitions of Boards^ 

 and at the Head towards the Manger let them be ad- 

 vanc'd to that height that one Horfe may not molejl 

 oifmell to another ^ and lo divide the Whole into as 

 many equal Stands or St anils as it will admit of-, al- 

 lowing to eachjRoom enough to turn about in, and lie 

 down at pleafure. Vou may make one of your Stau Is 

 clofey which may ferve for your Groom to lie in, in 

 cafe of a Match , Sicknefs , &c. and where he may 

 hum Candle without the Horfe's difcerning of it. Be- 

 hind the Horfes 1 would have a Range of Freffes made 

 with Peggs in them to hang up S^^^/fs, Bridles^ Houf- 

 sng-cloaths, &c. as likewile Shelves to place your 

 Curry-combs, Brufhes^ Dufling-cloaths^ Oymments, Wa" 

 tersy or any other NecelFaries upon . 



Now that you may not cumber your Stable with 

 Oat'Bimsyl think it necellary to tell you,that thebeft 

 way is to make ufe of the Invention of Mr, Farmer 

 o(Titfmore in Oxford-flnre. Which is done (according 

 as it is defcribed bv the Ingenuous Dr. Plot^ in his 

 Natural Hifiory of Oxford-jhire) '" by letting the 



* Oats down from a Loft above, out of a rejiel like 



* the Hopper o[ a Adill^ whence they fall into a fquare 

 ' Pipe let into the wall, of about four Inches Diagonal^ 



* which comes down into a Cupboard alfo fet into the 

 < wall, but with its end fo near the bottom that there 

 ' fhall never be above a Gallon, or other defireable 



* Qu^?.ntity in the Cupboard at a time, which being 



* taken away and given to the Horfes, another Gallon 

 *prcfently fucceeds •, fo that in the lower part of the 



Stable, 



