64 AMERICAN STABLE GUIDE. 



such unfortunate occasions — " there are too many eggs in 

 that basket." 



Farmers may console themselves on the comparative 

 immunity from fire in the country. This is no excuse for 

 the present arrangements of the agriculturists' stables. In 

 our experience and lifetime, many farm stables in Penn- 

 sylvania and New York have been consumed by fire from 

 natural causes, the incendiary, or by accident, and nothing 

 left of their contents but a charred and blackened mass, as 

 an emphatic rebuke to such imperfect arrangements. 



This condition of country stables should long ago have 

 been remedied ; but " better late than never.'' The 

 excuse of poverty can no longer be the plea, in the face of 

 the high prices for the products of the farm, which has 

 enabled so many of them to pay off their mortgages. 



