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but to be only twenty feet in breadth. In this range 

 are situated the straw and hay barns, granary, domestic 

 offices, and other accommodations required in such an 

 estabUshment. At each end of this yard are large 

 folding gates, with wickets in them, and are for the 

 entrance of waggons, carts, and foot people. There 

 should be a bell at each gate, as they are at all times to 

 be kept locked. 



Through the centre of this building is a large pas- 

 sage, leading to seven inclosures or paddocks. (See 

 plan, No. 1.) The centre paddock is seventy-eight feet, 

 by two hundred and forty- four feet, with rails ranged 

 round by the wall, for the drying of the horses' sweat- 

 ers. Adjoining the entrance, inside the walls, are two 

 water troughs. This paddock is intended for the horses 

 to walk in occasionally, as ordered by the groom. The 

 two paddocks on either side of the centre one, are 

 forty-four feet in width. The two outer ones are fifty 

 feet in width, but they are all of equal length, 

 separated by walls nine feet high. The ground on 

 M-hich the stables, offices, &c. stand, is enclosed on every 

 side by a stone wall of the same height. The four 

 paddocks of forty-four feet in width have troughs in 

 them. These paddocks are intended to turn into 

 occasionally, those yearlings which may not have to 

 come to post till they are two years old, to get a little 

 spring grass, after they have been broken ; or for the 

 same purpose for a country-plate horse, that may 

 require his constitution, as well as his legs, to be re- 

 freshed ; or for turning out a sick horse, such as may 



