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of stable manure would be quite effectual, but there is 

 reason to think that, if proper care be taken, no such 

 drastic procedure as cremation will be absolutely 

 necessary, unless perhaps for the months of July and 

 August. 



There are two matters involved in sanitary stable 

 reform one is the proper structure of the stable floor 

 and the treatment of the litter whilst in use for 

 bedding ; the other is the disposal of the horse 

 droppings and the discarded litter called stable manure. 

 If the floor be good and the bedding be well kept and 

 fairly dry, which is often not the case, then the effective 

 breeding of flies will be in the dung-pit and the 

 external manure heap. From a sanitary point of view 

 these latter are indeed almost everywhere ill-kept. 



The general fate of maggots living on the floor of 

 well-kept horse-boxes is to end their lives drowned in 

 the drains to which they descend, when or before they 

 pupate. 



In these days of motor-cars and fewer horses the 

 horticulturist everywhere is eager to buy good stuff ; 

 now stable manure to be good must be fresh and free 

 from the garbage with which stable men wantonly 

 corrupt the same, instead of consigning such extraneous 

 refuse to a proper separate dust-bin for collection and 

 cremation. So much can be done remuneratively with 

 a regular supply of clean fresh manure, that it seems 

 almost worth while transgressing the proper limits of 

 this booklet and writing chapters on mushroom culture 

 and on the intensive hot-bed cultivation, with the aid 

 of "cloches" or bell glasses, called French gardening. 

 It may be thought that such cultures will of themselves 



