FIRST-HAND BITS OF STABLE LORE 



To this must be added about $60 if a super- 

 intendent is employed ; about $40 for " cock- 

 horse boy," if one is used, and other needless items 

 may run it up to $800 or more per month. If, 

 however, the promoter's heart be in the under- 

 taking, he will act as his own superintendent, 

 hire cheap stabling, feed his own horses, shoe 

 them with tips, and economize vigorously and 

 wisely everywhere, his sheet running about 

 thus : 



Feed and care twenty horses @ .50 . $300.00 

 Stall-room @ $4 per month, per horse . . 80.00 



Shoeing 10.00 



Guard 55- 



Repairs 15.00 



$460.00 



This assumes that he also keeps his horses 

 in such condition that little or no veterinary at- 

 tendance is required. His horses ought not 

 to cost him over $100 per head, and if he will 

 "take 'em as they come," as a road-coach should, 

 he will find no trouble in securing free-going, 

 easy-driving teams, whose occasional infirmities 

 of temper it will prove both amusing and in- 

 structive to combat. If horses are sold at pri- 

 vate sale out of the different teams, it will also 



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