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CHAP. 11. 



STABLE MANAGEMENT VENTILATION. WARMTH. DIF- 

 FERENT TREATMENT FOR DIFFERENT HORSES. DRYNESS. 



WIDE DOORS. STALL-POSTS. RACKS. WINDOWS. 



BALLS. MANGERS. — HEAD COLLARS. — COLLAR SHANKS. 



— MUZZLES. LOFTS. OBJECTIONS TO KEEPING HAY IN 



THEM. DIFFERENT MATERIALS FOR STABLE FLOORS. — 



CAUSES FOR HANGING BACK. STABLE DRAINAGE. 



STABLE REQUISITES. NECESSITY OF RULE. — SADDLE 



AND HARNESS ROOM. — STOVES. BOXES. 



We will now suppose a person to have got, 

 through the good offices of a friend, as many 

 horses as he intends to keep, and those of a fair 

 sort for the purposes in view. Of course I put 

 race-horses out of the present consideration. We 

 will now have a look at 



The Stable. 



If I should say that about one stable In a hun- 

 dred is built so as to be perfectly comfortable, 

 healthful, convenient, and workmanlike-looking, 

 I should be giving odds in favour of the planners 

 of them. Doubtless horses live that have been 

 kept in all sorts of stables, and sometimes in very 

 bad ones ; but horses also die that have been kept 

 in them ; and many of these stables have been the 



