The Stable Handbook 



are used by a professional or business man in the 

 course of his work. 



If I were building or remodelling stables on a 

 place of my own, I should certainly have all the 

 accommodation in the form of loose boxes, with 

 perhaps a single stall, which can be squeezed in 

 where a box would not be possible. This is 

 useful to tie up strange horses in, or as a place to 

 clean your own animals when they come in after a 

 hard day. This, I think, is an excellent plan. 

 But as in small stables, for one reason or another, 

 extra space is often wanted, I should then have 

 the doors of one or more of the boxes removable 

 at will, so that bails could be slung between 

 two horses that will now be tied up in the space 

 where one stood before. 



As to the dimensions of the boxes they need 

 not all be the same size. If I was building I 

 should hke no box to be less than 14X lox 14. 

 But we shall find in practice very few stables are 

 more than 10 feet from the floor to the ceiling. 

 It is from a practical point of view impossible to 

 lay down a rule as to the number of cubic feet of 

 air to be allowed to each horse. But taking 

 1500 as a fair average allowance we may consider 

 every foot above that as a gain, every one below 

 as a disadvantage. In those stables where the 

 space is deficient the owner must be more than 

 ever vigilant to see that doors and windows are 

 left open freely. I think the sense of temperature 

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