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GENERAL ARRANGEMENT OF STABLES. 



VERY little variation exists in the plan of arrange- 

 ment in stables. Out of many hundreds of such 

 buildings, as well as cowhouses, that I have visited, 

 not more than a few attempts are made to 

 depart from the one common principle of tying 

 up to the wall, or manger which projects from it. 

 The prevalence of the system surely indicates a 

 very slow march in the way of improvement, and 

 points out how few must be the resources where 

 it is adopted without change. 



The tying up of animals in numbers beneath 

 one roof, separated by boarded partitions running 

 at right angles to the wall, is a very defective 

 system, and obstructive to the circulation of air 

 in a proper manner, to say nothing of the great 

 hardship which is inflicted upon the animal in 

 being compelled to look at a blank wall conti- 

 nually when in the house. 



In addition we usually find holes are either 

 made or recommended to be placed over his head. 

 Unfortunately, by making merely a hole we do not 

 compel the foul air to go out there as we might 

 be led to believe. Sometimes it may do so, when 

 it cannot fail to rise upwards from the floor and 

 carry with it the hurtful emanations of dung and 

 urine. These pass beneath the very nose of the 

 horse or cow, and are breathed to their detri- 



