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sash fixed at the height of 1 3 feet, immediately under the slope 

 of the roof, and should have an available area of one-tenth of 

 that of the walls. 



A smithy of this size will afford sufficient accommodation for Dressing 

 200 horses, and dressing-rings are provided, as shown at R, on ^^^S^. 

 Plates 45 and 46, for the shoeing of three horses at a time ; 

 these are firmJy bolted through the wall, as exhibited in detail 

 on Plate 46, Fig. 2. 



Loose boxes, when designed for large stables, as shown on Isolation. 

 Plates I, 32, and 39, or exclusively for the use of invalided 

 horses, can only properly fufil their purpose by being not only 

 built as far away as possible from the other stables, but by 

 being separated completely from each other. 



The division wall should, therefore, be carried up to the Division walls, 

 under side of the roof, or continued in inch boarding as shown 

 on Fig. 2, Plate 37. The walls should be rendered in cement 

 or carefully pointed, and, together with the inside of the louvres 

 in the roof and all internal woodwork, be frequently limewhited. 

 The walls dividing these boxes may be one brick in thickness, 

 but ail the external walls should be built in i\ brickwork. 

 They are provided with eaves, gutters, or with parapet walls, 

 double-tile creasing, and cement fillets, as shown on Fig. i, 

 Plate 37. The roof in this case is covered with zinc, and the 

 wall plates are partly supported by corbels of brick in cement. 

 The louvres are covered with close f-inch boarding and plain 

 zinc. 



The question of fireproof buildings is one which has for some Fireproof 

 years past exercised the ability of the profession, with, until buildings, 

 lately, very little practical result. It is certain that wood has 

 often more effectually opposed the destructive progress of a 

 conflagration than iron. 



If floors cannot be made absolutely fireproof, they can be Fireproof 

 constructed to check the progress of fire. Those of the hay floors, 

 and corn stores, upon Plates 3, lo, 11, and 12, are designed 

 with a view of protecting the iron used in the construction as 



