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should be a show yard, that he may be brought out 

 for inspection by visitors ; and, lastly, a covering 

 yard. This requires to be fitted with trying bars, 

 &c, but as to this detail various opinions exist. The 

 floor of this yard should be covered with a thick 

 layer of sand, so that if either the mare or horse 

 fall they will not injure themselves. Each stallion 

 should have the run of a paddock of about an acre ; 

 the yards and the paddocks ought to be well enclosed, 

 and the fences around the yards adjoining the boxes 



VIEW OF PADDOCK BOXES FOR MARES AND FOALS 



should not be less than 1 2 ft. high. The designs, as 

 shown on the accompanying drawings, have been 

 made on the before-mentioned lines, and would, 

 I am sure, be found to work well in practice ; but 

 regard must of course be paid to the different con- 

 ditions certain to be met with in each individual site. 

 With planting and flower-beds judiciously introduced, 

 a breeding establishment may be made attractive 

 and pretty, where the owner may take his friends 

 and revive former memories and associations in 

 triumphs won and anticipations and hopes frustrated. 



