Stabling Arrangements 339 



We wonder that stabled horses do not lie down more ; 

 it is a wonder the poor brutes do so at all in their 

 stifling pens and upon their reeking bedding. This 

 plan ensures the benefit of all the ventilation that can 

 be arranged, and also its equal benefit to all. But 

 these partitions must be slatted right down to the 

 ground or floor. 



For the same reason — and for many others as 

 good — there are no regular stall partitions, but 

 " bails" are swung from wall at head, and from ceil- 

 ing at heel. These are simply two planks tongued 

 and grooved together; braced (painted, brass- 

 mxOunted, or ornamented, if you like) ; and hung by 

 brass chains or pipe-clayed cords if preferred from 

 the ceiling at heel ; attached to the wall with a hook 

 and eye, or with a cross-piece (as on the end of a 

 dog-chain) which slips through the eye. The bottom 

 of the lower plank hangs about eighteen inches from 

 the floor, and the top is about four feet six inches 

 from the same point. These " bails " are hung about 

 five feet apart (although horses do well in three feet 

 six inches, if needful, so elastic is this accommoda- 



