100 THE HORSE 



If stable room is very limited, tlie substitution 

 of bales for the stall division will allow of each 

 horse being kept in a more restricted area, and in 

 cart-horse stables, the inmates of which are too 

 regularly worked to get into much mischief, it is 

 better to do away with stall divisions altogether, 

 than run the risk of getting an animal cast in the 

 very narrow stalls which are so often provided. 



Building Stables 



If it falls to the lot of the horse-o^^^ler to have 

 to build stables, he cannot do better than put him- 

 self in the hands of a finn which makes a specialty 

 of constructing them, seeing that due attention is 

 paid to the points indicated. If expense is an ob- 

 ject, however, he may cheaply construct a wooden 

 stable, which will he healthy and sanitary, on the 

 following lines : 



The walls are best made entirely of brick, 

 though these can be substituted by a dwarf wall 

 of bricks, surmounted by two-inch yellow deal 

 creosoted boards or slabs. The roof should pref- 

 erably be tiled, and, in every case, boarded under ; 

 but good felt tarred every third year will last 

 twenty years. In no case should corrugated iron 

 be used either for roof or walls, because even 



