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without the use of the ordinary stove now in common use. 

 As elsewhere stated, a portion of this section of the sta})le 

 requires to be flagged or paved with stone or brick, upon 

 which the carriage stands when it is being washed. This 

 portion of the floor also should be sloped inward from 

 its margins to the centre, where is placed an iron rack or 

 perforated plate^ through which the waste water falls into 

 the proper channel leading to the sewer or tank. 



The harness-room or closet is the third division or 

 apartment on the ground-floor of the stable, and requires 

 no special remark, further than that all such places should 

 be kept clean, dry, and with an ample supply of wooden 

 pins or iron hooks upon which to hang the harness. The 

 harness-closets should, for dryness and cleanliness, be a 

 portion of the carriage-house where the influences of the 

 stable cannot reach its contents ; for the gases of stables are 

 extremely injurious to carriage-robes, mats, and leather of 

 all kinds. Indeed, the harness-room may, in some instances 

 at least, be properly called the "smoking-room;" and for 

 which purpose, when it has a place for everything and 

 everything in its place, no valid argument or objection can 

 be raised against such use, but something may be urged in 

 its favor, by insuring for it and all that is in it a more tidy 

 appearance than perhaps would otherwise be accorded to 

 it at all times were it exclusively used for harness and 

 saddles. 



