CHAPTER III. 



IN THE STABLE AND AT WORK. 



The Stable Should Be Light, Clean and Free from Bad 

 Odors ; the Floor Even Grooming Bedding Conven- 

 iences The Good Teamster Overloading Trotting 

 Down Hill. 



Feed me on good oats and hay, 

 Give me drink three times a day ; 

 In the pasture let me play, 

 Groom me well, for it will pay. 



A good horseman cannot be too careful about his stable. 

 It should be well ventilated, scrupulously clean, well drained, 



and have low mangers and 

 a floor that never gets out 

 of true from wearing by the 

 shoes or settling of the 

 building. There is no floor 

 that is better than plank, 

 all things considered, but 

 it should not slope too 

 much from front to rear, as is often the case. 



It is well to have the floor supplemented by a lower floor 

 which has a more decided slope, the surface floor to consist 

 of two to three-inch planks one-half to three-quarters of an 

 inch apart, held in place by cleats or iron rods. This sur- 

 face floor may be leveled up by resting on a thick cross- 

 piece at the rear and a very thin one or none at all forward. 

 The perfect stable floor should stop one foot or more short of 



