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the pipe clear. When the latter becomes stopped up, the 

 drain soon begins to smell very badly, so much so that if you 

 hold your head over the drain the ammonia is strong enough 

 to cause you to shut your eyes. 



I do not think it is necessary in this small work to 

 dwell upon what farmers should have for their horses, as 

 most of them have already got their stable floors in, and 

 fresh farms are not cropping up as they used to a few years 

 ago. One word, however, I may say to the farmers, that is, 

 where they have so many rough stones for the stable they 

 should lay either bricks down edgeways in the place of 

 them in the way I have mentioned or concrete. The latter 

 may perhaps come a little too expensive in some cases, but 

 where one does not mind this it will last for centuries. 



I am quite aware cart horses kick up the stable more 

 than carriage horses. In the first place they are much 

 heavier, and in the second place they itch a deal more in 

 their heels and legs, especially where there is a greasy heel, 

 or a rupture in the skin. They stamp with their feet very 

 hard for ten or fifteen minutes together, and unless there is 

 a very solid floor they knock it to pieces. 



