AND HOW TO KEEP IT SOUND. 



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appropriated to the use of the horses, is not more than is 

 required for a free passage into the boxes, and the reception 

 of the necessary stable implements. The doors which in Fig. 

 17 entail a waste of half a large circle of space in the open- 

 «ig and shutting, are so arranged as only to traverse the space 

 necessary for the passage ; and when open, to form sides to it, 

 and become useful in directing the horses in and out of their 

 respective boxes. 



FIGURES XIX. AND XX. 



Figs. 19 and 20 represent the muzzle mentioned at page 40. 



Fig. 19. 



Fig i^-*— Shows it in its position upon the horse's head. 



a X Mark the width of the opening — which should be determined 

 by the distance from the nose to the jaw-bone, at about two 

 or three inches above the angle of the mouth. It is not 

 necessary that the head should go deeper into it than this, 

 but it is essential that the bottom of the muzzle should 

 hang fully three inches below the lips, as shown at c, be- 

 cause the horse is thus obliged fairly to deposite the muzzia 

 before 'le can be able to reach the bottom of it with hia 

 lips ; in doing which, the weight of the muzzle, and tha 



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