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is caught into tanks or barrels to be utilised for other 

 purposes. They should be fixed at regular intervals, 

 the distance between necessarily depending on the 

 area of the roof. 



EFFECTS OF GOOD STABLES 



If stables were built as described above the per- 

 centage of shying horses would be reduced to a 

 minimum, and their ailments generally would be 

 correspondingly diminished, because, by the perfect 

 system of lighting, horses would see objects outside in 

 the daylight as they really are ; whilst the modern 

 system of sanitation and ventilation would give a uni- 

 formity of cleanliness and temperature that would 

 increase the vitality of horses to a marvellous degree. 



