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vided with a strap) being detached and hung over 

 the bail-heel ready for use. Thus the horse can 

 eat and lie down in comfort, but can neither get 

 cast nor assail his neighbor. The divisions should 

 not be too wide, or the occupants may stand cross- 

 wise of them. All boxes are framed on the 

 ground surface, and about eight feet above it by 

 scantlings which pin together ; the uprights at 

 the corners being mortised at top and bottom, 

 and readily slipping into place; the partitions 

 (slatted from the ground up) fitting into braces in 

 these uprights and being secured by hooks ; the 

 doors hanging on pintles fastened in the proper 

 uprights, and the front of the box consisting 

 wholly of two doors which both swing open and 

 allow easy access to it. Everything is light. Two 

 men will set one up in twenty minutes, while so 

 great is the elasticity that no horse can kick or 

 break it down. The writer has eighty-six of these 

 boxes, made in 1894, and they are to-day (1902) all 

 perfect, although they have been put up and taken 

 down dozens of times, and shipped all about by 

 freight as well — not one penny having as yet 

 been spent in repairs — and they cost complete^ 

 ^5.00 each! Further particulars, specifications, 

 etc., are at the service of any one interested. 



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