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some iron orating. These loose stalls would be e*- 

 tremely beneficial to the coach horses of private 

 families, which have little work or exercise, and 

 stand much in the stable. — Philos. and Pract. Trea- 

 tise on Horses, 3d edit. vol. 1. p. 459. 



" If custom would permit us to reflect, we should 

 be convinced that a horse confined by the head, to 

 the small space which he covers, and remaining 

 habitually fixed in such situation, must necessarily 

 subject him to that variety of disorders resulting 

 from defect of motion, to which we so perpetually 

 see him liable. The sleepy staggers is doubtless 

 often brought on from this cause, joined to high 

 feeding. Thus the loose standing is not only bene- 

 ficial to hard worked horses, but to those which are 

 high fed and do little, their airings and exercise also 

 being neglected. Those with greased and swelled 

 legs, that perpetually stand when tied up, will be 

 induced to lie down and roll, one of the best remedies 

 in their case, if turned loose into a well littered and 

 roomy stall. A manger is an incumbrance in a loose 

 stall, and, perhaps, in every other. It must be ac- 

 knowledged that, standing loose, a horse uses more 

 litter than when haltered ; but there is a far more 

 fatal objection, it gives the groom more trouble, an 

 object of superior consideration, in his view, than 

 the benefit occurring to the health of the horse from 

 the exercise of turning, stretching, and rolling." — 

 History of the Horse. 



Racks and mangers, which are constantly fouled 

 by the breath of the horse, and the latter frequently 

 by his dung, when he stands loose, should be regularly 



