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sweet and cool by constant turnings. The oats can be con- 

 ducted through a shute to the grinding and mixing room 

 below, passing en route through a dust-extracting machine, 

 of which there are several efficient designs on the market. 



The Men's Quarters, Saddle Rooms, etc., can safely be 

 left to individual taste and ideas. The Hay Sheds or Dutch 

 Barns, constructed of iron, are very convenient for storing 

 the stud's hay and straw supply. Their use does away with 

 the yearly rick-building, thatching, and cutting into trusses. 

 They should be erected with an eye to their accessibility 

 from the high road so as to facilitate carting operations, and 

 to their being far enough removed from chimney stacks and 

 the danger of flying sparks therefrom. 



The Yearling Boxes should not be less than 14ft. square ; 

 16ft. would be preferable, and straw yard accommodation 

 should be arranged for on the plan adopted with the brood 

 mare boxes. 



HOSPITAL AND ISOLATION BOXES. 



The Hospital Boxes should be erected at the furthest 

 available point from the rest of the stud buildings. They 

 should include a room for an attendant, fitted with a stove 

 for heating water, for steaming nostrils, fomentations, and 

 mash-making. This room should contain a medicine cup- 

 board, and, more important still, a sleeping bunk for at least 

 one man. It is of little use isolating horses amiss with con- 

 tagious disease if their nurse is free to live and sleep with 

 other men working amongst the rest of the horses. If there 

 is direct access to the Hospital Boxes from the public road, 

 so much the better. This will obviate the necessity of fresh 

 equine arrivals crossing the farm to reach the isolation 

 quarters. It is an open question whether the straw yards or 

 the isolation boxes are the most effective weapons in the 



