CHAPTEE YI 

 Stable Management 



Appliances 

 Every horse-owner will have to provide him- 

 self with a certain number of stable tools, and 

 below is a list of those that are absolutely neces- 

 sary in the smallest stable. 



Pails 



The first item to be purchased will be buckets, 

 at the rate of one per horse if several horses are 

 kept, or two for one horse, three for two. Best 

 oak pails cost about seventy-five cents each ; if 

 painted, about $1.00 ; galvauized pails a little less. 

 The latter, if of good quality, and consequently 

 strong, answer their purpose as well as the more 

 expensive oak, but will not last so long. If 

 economy is the order of the day, carefully- 

 selected lard buckets, which are to be got at any 

 grocer's, will be found as useful in the stable as 

 they are for many other pm^poses. We say " care- 

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