GROUND PLAN OF STABLE. 



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The best proportions for their boxes are sixteen to eighteen feet 

 long by twelve feet wide and nine or ten high, but these are per- 

 haps a little above the average. Nevertheless I have given these 

 in the annexed plan of a 



C OVERE D RIDE 

 OPEN IN THE MIDDLE 



FEET. 

 RACING OR HUNTING STABLE. 



It is divided into four separate stables thirty-six feet long and eigh- 

 teen wide, in which three or even four loose boxes may be separated 

 by partitions nine feet high with open iron tops, as shown at page 

 172, or one or more may be divided by travises into six stalls each 

 six feet wide. I have already alluded to the fittings for each, and 

 therefore I need say nothing more here beyond alluding to the 

 plan itself.* 



* The plan on the ensuing page, of a stable belonging to Mr. Samuel R. 

 Phillips, of Philadelphia, was selected after a careful examination, as 

 being unusually well arranged for four or five horses. It has now accom- 

 modations for five horses, but it could be made very convenient for four 

 by taking out the partition between the fourth and fifth stalls, thus making 

 three stalls and a loose box. EDITOR. 



