MANAGEMENT OF LIGHT HORSES. 165 



There are in existence two bodies professing themselves 

 ready to give advice and aid in the matter of drains. One is 

 the "Sanitary Security Association" (i, Mitre Court, Fleet 

 Street, London, E.G.), the other the "North Eastern Sanitary 

 Inspection Association," which has Sir Matthew White Ridley 

 for its President. The addresses of the latter are 4, Chapel 

 Walk, Cross Street, Manchester, and (Head Office), Neville 

 Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Possibly one or both of these 

 Societies may keep an expert in stable drains, but the reader 

 may be strongly advised, when seeking professional advice, to 

 have recourse to some one who has made a special study of 

 stables. Meantime he may read with much profit to himself 

 the sections dealing with stables in that excellent book 

 " Horses and Stables," by Sir F. Fitzwygram (Routledge), 

 and a book on stables from the pen of Mr. John Birch, the 

 architect (Blackwood). As already mentioned, there may be 

 several reasons why it is impossible to render stables perfect ; 

 but, if proper ventilation and drainage can be secured at an 

 outlay within the means of the owner or tenant, it will be 

 money well expended. 



The number of cubic feet of air for each horse is a matter 

 of some importance ; but Sir F. Fitzwygram tells us that it 

 is not known for certain what is the minimum quantity of air 

 required for each horse, but possibly about 1,200 cubic feet 

 would be sufficient. 



STABLE FITTINGS. 



Loose boxes are always to be preferred to stalls for all 

 horses, but it is not always that they can be provided. Stalls 

 should have a minimum width of 6 feet, and should be io feet 

 deep. Horses like company, so the partitions should not be 

 high enough to prevent them seeing one another, though on 

 the top of the wooden partitions there may be some open 

 iron work. This arrangement should be adopted in all ranges 

 of stabling ; and in the writer's opinion the very worst form 



