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Setting of Stalls. — The stalls should be set with good, hard 

 eight-inch sets, which should be placed in clay puddle, and 

 fitted to each other in lime, or, what is better, Roman cement. 

 The stall should rise about three inches, from the heel post to 

 underneath the manger, in stables where it is intended to put 

 down false bottoms in addition ; but where these are not 

 intended to be used, a fall of one inch will suffice. Where 

 it is intended to put down false bottoms to the stalls, and such 

 false bottoms to be placed above the sets, the manger will 

 require to be placed higher from the ground than stated. In 

 the latter case, the height of the manger must be measured 

 from the top surface of the false bottom. Eunning up the 

 centre of every stall should be a channeled stone, to conduct 

 away the urine. These channels should all terminate in one 

 broad channel, running the entire length of the stable. Into 

 this long channel, or main stable channel, must be placed iron 

 grates to allow of the urine passing off into the drains beneath. 

 One iron grate to every second stall will be ample. Avoid 

 placing these grates in the middle of the stall- way. Place them 

 opposite the stall-posts, where they will be out of the way of 

 the feet of the horses. The urine grates should be eight inches 

 in length, formed of thick metal, perforated with a number of 

 small holes, and of the width and form of the channel they are 

 fitted to. Each grate should be fixed by means of a strong 

 hinge. The main urine channel, or the one running the entire 

 length of the stable, should be six inches broad, and about one 

 inch and a half in depth. If it be desirable to give greater 

 certainty of fixedness to the urine grates, short bars of iron 

 can be placed immediately over them, and soldered into the 

 stones below. Imperfectly fixed, or loose urine grates are 

 sources of great danger. 



