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advise that each stall-post behind the horse's quarters 

 should be placed at a distance from the north wall of 

 the building (or that which fronts the heads of the 

 horses) of ten feet, which will form the length of the 

 stall. Its height, commencing from the post, should 

 be five feet and a half. The workman, in erecting the 

 stall, must observe, that as he approaches the centre of 

 it, he should begin gradually to raise it in a curve 

 direction, until he has reached within about a foot of 

 the wall, and from that part to its insertion into the 

 wall it should be straight. The top rail being fixed, 

 the stall, when completed, should measure in the 

 highest part, at least eight feet and a half, which is 

 sufficiently high to prevent the horses from smelling 

 to each other. The whole of the wood-work should 

 be of oak ; if all the wood-work cannot be of oak, 

 the racks, the manger-rails, cribbing boards, and the 

 first six planks in each stall from the post should cer- 

 tainly be of this sort of wood. There is to be fixed in 

 the centre of each of these stalls, in front of the horse's 

 head, and two inches above the manger, a cribbing 

 board, two feet six inches square ; and six inches from 

 the upper edge of it, should be attached a ring, to 

 which should be affixed a chain with a swivel and 

 some round links in the centre ; and at the bottom part 

 of it there should be a piece of iron, something in the 

 form of the letter T. This chain being thus made, will 

 allow of being let out or shortened to a convenient 

 length, for the purpose of chaining up the horse's head 

 in a proper position, at the time of being dressed. The 



