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chips of brick or small stones to prevent the floor 

 being- slippery, but this roughens the surface, which 

 adds to the difficulty of cleanliness, and it does not 

 wear nearly so well. In fact, rough-shod, heavy agri- 

 cultural horses very soon break it up into holes, and 

 when once broken the whole floor very soon dis- 

 appears. 



STALLS AND DAMP COURSE. 



A better plan is to lightly groove the surface. 

 A straight groove from the gutter behind should 

 run directly up the centre of each stall, and diagonal 



grooves should be let 

 into it from either side 



(Fig. 43-) 



The grooves should 

 be light and placed 

 four inches apart. 

 The cross gutter 

 should be semi- 

 circular, four inches 

 wide, and two inches 

 deep in the centre. 



In order to secure 

 comfort for horses, 

 stalls should be six feet wide and ten feet long, and 

 should be as level as possible, consistent, of course, with 

 a proper declivity for the removal of the urine. Stalls 

 should fall away about two inches from the front to 

 the cross gutter, and they should slope an inch to the 



M M 



Fig. 43. — Gkooved Stall. 



MM, Main Channel ; C C, Centre 



Channel ; G G, Grooves 



