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craving ones, and in training, they are often in strong 

 work; and not un frequently when the ground is hard, 

 most of these horses are long comers, and long comers 

 are generally voracious feeders, and whether they stand 

 in loose boxes or stalls, they feed equally well ; there- 

 fore, for all such horses, loose boxes are the most 

 proper. There can be no objection to loose boxes, 

 except that which I have already stated ; and I repeat 

 that it cannot be put in competition with the advan- 

 tages obtained by the use of them. 



I shall now make my observations on stall-stables, 

 and point out to my readers the horses that are likely 

 to do best by being kept in them. The principal 

 advantage of stall-stables is, that when three or four 

 delicate horses are standing together in one stall, they 

 feed better than they would do, were each to be kept 

 alone in a loose box ; for, generally speaking, such 

 horses are not very good feeders ; yet, at feeding time, 

 when they hear the corn rattle in the sieve, they begin 

 to neigh, and seem anxious to be fed, and they cer- 

 tainly do eat what corn is given them, with apparently 

 a better appetite than they would if standing alone. 



Another thing to be observed is, that horses of this 

 description are seldom in physic ; they are never in 

 strong work, neither do they sweat, nor often run ; 

 and being treated pretty much alike, they do not dis- 

 turb each other, by going out at any particular time. 

 These are the horses that (unless at such times when 

 they are sick) are better standing in stall-stables than 

 in boxes; only, it is to be observed, tliey are to be 



