88 THE HORSE 



generally allow only about half, or less than half, 

 this number, it is apparently possible for horses to 

 live and be capable of work in a very much more 

 restricted area. It must be added that horses 

 whose work takes them for long hours out-of- 

 doors will be healthier, and will be able to live 

 under less favorable conditions when under cover, 

 than those who only escape from the vicinity 

 of four walls for one or two hom\s out of the 

 twenty -four. Farm horses who do their regular 

 eight to ten homes' work daily can live healthily 

 in stables which would be utterly condemned for 

 the housing of light horses ; but the factor which 

 makes it possible is not any inherent hardiness 

 of the heavier breeds, but merely theu^ mode of 

 life. 



It is presumed that the horse-owner is giving 

 his animals the greatest amount of cubic space 

 that his building permits of. To aid in this de- 

 sirable end, the empty staU or stalls should not be 

 littered up with odds and ends, and allowed to 

 become untidy, du^ty receptacles for the deposit 

 of rubbish. Every empty stall in a small stable 

 means more air for the occupants of other stalls, 

 and no detail of this kind is too insignificant to be 

 overlooked. 



