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Twenty by twenty-five feet, with a good cellar beneath, 

 well ventilated up througli the roof, would make ample 

 and comfortable accommodations. Have a trap door to the 

 second story sufficiently large to take up your sleigh for 

 summer, also hay, straw and grain, which should never be 

 kept in the stable below, to absorb all the foul gases, and 

 where the horse may get loose and eat to his injury, if not 

 destruction. Have a tight partition between the stall and 

 carriage room, to preserve the varnish on your carriage. 

 Let the stairs always lead out of tlie carriage room to the 

 second floor. 



All doors should be hung on rollers. A double floor of 

 inch boards will do for the main part, but the stalls should 

 have plank for the upper floor, laid tight and smooth. 



Stall. — Four by eight feet will be an average size, with a 

 rack two and one-half by four feet, of four-inch strips, fas- 

 tened one inch apart, and placed in the middle, rear of the 

 stall floor, and inch auger holes in the first floor for drain- 

 age. This rack should be made to lift out, and the trench 

 cleaned and flushed as often as necessary. 



Crib. — We would have no crib. The old-fashioned crib 

 is worse than useless. It is actually dangerous. First, it 

 is built of wood, and on it many a restless horse has 

 learned that incurable habit of cribbing. Second, it is 

 usually to store the bedding under, from which ammonia 

 and other foul gases arise, to the serious injury of the 

 horse's eyes and general health. Bedding should be placed 

 in a covered cage outside the stable, where it will dry dur- 

 ing the day. 



We would have an iron pot in one corner of the stall 

 for grain and an iron rack in the other for hay. Whatever 

 hay or grain he drops on the floor will be picked up. A 

 box shoot should come from the floor above to the grain 

 pot, or, better, a piece of ordinary galvanized gutter, on 

 which the restless horse will have no inclination to nibble. 



The picking up from the floor of a portion of the food 

 has relieved, if not cured, many a cock-kneed horse. The 



