206 PEECEPT ASD PRACTICE. 



BOXES FOR HORSES. 



There can be no doubt but that every building for 

 the stabling of horses should have boxes attached to 

 it, the number, of course, varying in accordance v^^ith 

 the number of stalls. No hunters' stable is, in fact, 

 complete without them. I have had occasion twice 

 to build a hunters' stable for my own use. I built 

 them (or I should rather say, in one instance I 

 altered a barn into a stable) with stalls for four 

 horses, and a box at each end for two more, which I 

 think is a useful proportion of stalls and boxes. The 

 latter had two entrances — one from the stable, the 

 other from the yard. The entrance to a box (where 

 there is but one) should invariably be by a door cut 



