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of the stall is a window, protected on the inside by a wire netting 

 with inch meshes. In warm weather both are replaced by a wire 

 netting fine enough to exclude flies. The hay is supplied through a 

 shute extending to within a few inches of the ventilator above the 

 roof. This tapers gradually from bottom to top, so that hay will 

 pass freely through it. A door in one side of it, two feet above the 

 floor of the loft, is opened to admit the hay, and a valve above this 



Fiff. 33. —GROUND PLAN. 



door, working like an ordinary damper in a stove-pipe, affords means 

 of checking ventilation through it in extremely cold weather. The 

 shute thus acts as a ventilator, and protects the hay from all breath, 

 gases and odors of the stable. Four feet above the stable floor it termi- 

 nates in a rack, like that shown in figure 28. In the opposite corner 

 of the stall is an iron or wooden feed -box for grain. The open stall 

 is provided with a similar shute and rack. The stable door slides on 

 a track protected from rain and snow. The two large doors are 



